



Book_-i.P^'=l,Vi 



PRESENTED BY 



Loai* 



CATALOGUE 



OF THE 



VANDERBILT CHAPTER 




Phi beta Kappa -^^^^ 



Issued everj five years. (By-Laws, Articla V.) 

1914 








B. H. STIEF JEWELRY CO., OFFICIAL MANUFACTURERS OF 
THE ^ B K KEYS FOR THE VANDERBILT CHAPTER. 

The following recommendation was adopted by the National CounciP 
September i2> 1901 : 

"That the Council instruct the officers of the United Chapters to request 
all jewelers known to be engaged in the manufacture of college badges not 
to deliver a Phi Beta Kappa badge to any person, except upon an ordeK 
countersigned by an officer of a Chapter," 



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preface; 



The preamble (page 25) of the original minutes shows 
Phi Beta Kappa to be native to America. Efforts have 
been made to trace the society to the Order of the Illumi- 
nati founded by Professor Weishaupt at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, 
in 1776, but all to no purpose. To the handful of men who 
gathered at Williamsburg ,JVa., in Apollo Hall of the Raleigh 
Tavern, whose walls were still vocal with the patriotic in- 
vectives of Patrick Henry, belongs the honor of inaugura- 
ting this movement. 

The society was founded in the very birth hour of our 
republic, and every Phi Beta Kappa key still bears the 
date, December 5, 1776, in memory of that day. *'A stu- 
dent," says Hon. William Short, "who proved himself the 
best Hellenist in the college probably devised the Greek 
motto," which in after years was destined to become syn- 
onymous with scholastic distinction. 

It will be seen that the silver <l> B K medal of 1776 (page 25 ) 
is practically the same as the present badge, with the excep- 
tion of the later addition of the key point. The insignia are no 
longer secret. Phi Beta Kappa are the initial letters of the 
Greek words $tAoo-o<^ta Blov Kv^epvijTrj^; — "- Philosophy the Guide 
of Life." The hand pointing to the stars symbolizes aspira- 
tion. Yet in its organization the fraternity was strictly se-^ 
cret, as shown in the "oath of fidelity." (Page 25.) 

With its bonds of brotherhood and its mysteries the Phi 
Beta Kappa became the parent of our numerous Greek Let- 
ter Fraternities which have to-day a healthy existence in 
most of our colleges. But a more honorable career was des- 
tined for the ancient institution. About the year 1810 the 

1 Several portions of this brief historical sketch of the Society were writ- 
ten by the undersigned for the 2^ale Monthly Magazine and the Vanderhili 
Observer. H. C. T. 

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4 Van der bill Chaj>ter. 

Morgan fanaticism against Freemasonry so worked on the 
Harvard Chapter that it violated its solemn pledges and ex- 
posed all the secrets of the order. Mr. Avery Allen published 
a '* Key to the Phi Beta Kappa," in his *' Treatise on Mason 
ry," and criticised the motto of the society in the following 
words: ''Philosophy has been the watchword of infidels in 
every age, and by its learned and enchanting sound many 
unwary youths have been led to reject the only sure guide 
to heaven." Such men as John Quincy Adams, Judge 
Story, and Edward Everett were pronounced in this anti- 
secret movement. In fact, Edward Everett, so the record 
runs, "touchingly set forth that the students of Harvard had 
such conscientious scruples as to keep them from taking 
the oath of secrecy, and the society life was thus endan- 
gered. There was stout opposition, but the motion pre- 
vailed. . . . The secret, of course, was out. The world 
did not stare at the discovery." This was the great influ- 
ence that changed the character of Phi Beta Kappa from a 
Greek Letter Fraternity to an Honorary and Scholastic 
Brotherhood. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, in the Atlantic 
^tiarterlyy July, 1879, wrote: "For nearly half a century 
Phi Beta Kappa was the only society in America that could 
pretend to be devoted to literature and philosophy, and it 
happened therefore that in the infant literature of the nation 
some noteworthy steps are marked by orations and poems 
delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa." 

The spirit of broader brotherhood than that of State lines 
appears in the action of the Virginia Society recorded in the 
minutes of May 4, 1779 (page 26), and those of December 
4 and December 9 (page 27). Three Chapters were voted 
for certain towns in Virginia, which, if established, were 
crushed by the Revolution, and two Chapters were founded 
at Yale and Harvard, known as Zeta and Epsilon, respective- 
ly. A still broader feeling was manifest in the preparation of 
the charters, and the two New England branches received 
the names of the Alpha of Connecticut and the Alpha of Mas- 
sachusetts Bay. "The introduction of Phi Beta Kappa," 
says George Dwight Kellogg, "into New England is one of 



Phi Beta Kappa, 5 

the romantic incidents of American College history. In 
1779 Mr. Elisha Parmele, who had resided two years in 
New Haven as an undergraduate, and subsequently received 
his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1778, was compelled 
to travel South for his health. Being an earnest scholar, 
he was no doubt attracted to the flourishing college at Wil- 
liamsburg, where, according to tradition, he attended the 
lectures of Prof. George Wythe, who held the first chair of 
law founded in an American college. . . . When he 
started on his northward journey, he was intrusted with 
two * charter parties,' drawn up December 4, 1776, and with 
power to establish two 'scyons,' in Cambridge and New 
Haven respectively; but inasmuch as he reached New Ha- 
ven first, the Yale Chapter, founded November 13, 1780, 
antedates that at Harvjrdj which was organized September 

5, 1781." 

On January 3, 1781, the British fleet under Benedict 
Arnold approached the Virginia Coast. The life of the old 
college was threatened, and the precautionary measures 
were adopted to preserve the records of the society seen in 
the minutes of January 6, 1781 (page 27). At the close of 
the war the parent Chapter ceased to exist until 1849. ^^ 
that time Mr. Short, the old president, then ninety-two years 
of age, reestablished the Virginia Chapter at Williamsburg, 
and thus the succession with the past remains unbroken. 
The Civil War again interrupted the life of the Alpha of 
Virginia, but it was revived in 1893. The old records 
(quoted on pages 25-37), which, during the vicissitudes of 
the college, were preserved in the Virginia Historical Socie- 
ty, are now again in possession of the mother Chapter. It 
will be interesting to know that measures were taken to 
mark the spot in Virginia where Elisha Parmele lies buried. 
The National Council has devoted a sum of money for the 
erection of a suitable memorial; for beyond the removal of 
the barn on the site of the old bur3'ing ground, and beyond 
the marking of the grave in the Shenandoah Valley, a far 
grander and more enduring monument is the Elisha Parmele 
Scholarship Fund. 



6 Vande7'bilt Chapter. 

During what is known as the "Alpha Period," which ex- 
tended for over one hundred years, each Alpha had the 
privilege of establishing other Chapters within its own State, 
while the consent of all the Alphas was necessary to extend 
the society to another State. This law was based on the 
charter of the Alpha of Massachusetts Bay, which gave "the 
privileges of the meeting Alpha in Virginia in granting char- 
ters for the establishment of other meetings anywhere within 
the State of Massachusetts Bay, which meetings are to stand 
in the same relation to you that the junior branches of this 
society stand in to the meeting Alpha here.'* 

On August 20, 1787, the Alpha of New Hampshire was 
established at Dartmouth through the consent of the Alpha 
of Massachusetts and the Alpha of Connecticut. These 
three Chapters remained the only representatives of Phi Beta 
Kappa from 1787 to 1817. 

In 181 7 an Alpha charter was granted Union, which es- 
tablished Chapters at University of City of New York (Beta, 
1858), College of the City of New York (Gamma, 1867), 
Columbia (Delta, 1869), Hamilton (Epsilon, 1870), Hobart, 
(Zeta, 1871), Colgate (Eta, 1878), Cornell (Theta, 1882). 

The Alpha of Connecticut extended the society to Trin- 
ity (Beta, 1845) and Wesleyan (Gamma, 1845). The Al- 
pha of Massachusetts established branches at Amherst 
{Beta, 1853) and Williams (Gamma, 1867). Alpha char- 
ters were granted Bowdoin in 1825, Brown in 1830, and 
Rutgers in 1869. The Alpha of Vermont, at University of 
Vermont, chartered in 1848, granted a charter to Middle- 
bury (Beta, 1868). The Alpha of Ohio was established at 
Adelbert, 1848, and chartered the Chapters atKenyon (Beta, 
1858) and Marietta (Gamma, i860). 

The year 1881 marked a new era in the life of the ancient 
organization. On October 18 sixteen Chapters sent repre- 
sentatives to New York to take measures toward the estab- 
lishment of a National Council. The first meeting of this 
council was held at Saratoga September 5, 1883. The con- 
stitution was ratified by Bowdoin, Harvard, Dartmouth, 
Union, University of Vermont, Trinity, Amherst, Wesleyan, 



Phi Beta Kappa. 7 

Williams, College of the City of New York, Columbia, 
Hamilton, Hobart, Middlebury, University of the City of 
New York, and Kenyon. 

At the second council, September i, 1886, the constitution 
was ratified by Yale and Cornell, and charters were granted 
Rochester, Dickinson, and Lehigh. 

At the third council, September 4, 1889, the constitution 
was ratified by Rutgers, and charters were granted to La- 
fayette, De Pauw, Kansas, and Northwestern. 

At the fourth council, September 7, 1892, charters were 
granted Tufts, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. 

At the fifth council, September 11, 1895, the constitution 
was ratified by Brown, Western Reserve, Marietta, and Wil- 
liam and Mary. Charters were granted Swarthmore, Iowa, 
Nebraska, Colby, Syracuse, and Johns Hopkins. 

At the sixth council, September 7, 1898, charters were 
granted Boston, California, Chicago, Cincinnati, Haverford, 
Princeton, St. Lawrence, Vassar, Wabash, and Wisconsin. 

At the seventh council, September 12, 1901, charters were 
granted Allegheny, Missouri, and Vanderbilt. 

At the eighth council, September 7, 1904, charters were 
granted Smith, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, Leland Stanford, 
North Carolina, Texas, University of Colorado, Colorado 
College, Ohio State University, and Woman's College of 
Baltimore (now Goucher). 

At the ninth council, September 11, 1907, charters were 
granted Michigan, Illinois, Grinnell, Franklin and Marshall, 
Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan, Virginia, and Tulane. 

At the tenth council, September 13, 1910, charters were 
granted Washington and Lee, Beloit, Denison, Indiana, 
Miami, and West Virginia. 

At the eleventh council, September 10, 191 3, charters 
were granted Radcliffe, Georgia, Washington (Seattle), 
North Dakota, Lawrence, Pomona, Washington (St. Louis), 
and Carleton. 

In Vanderbilt University Phi Beta Kappa has become a 
part of college life and tradition. As the record shows, we 
have elected from time to time several of the alumni who 



8 Vanderbilt Chapter, 

had won high grade of scholarship during their college 
course, and who in after years have brought distinction 
upon their Alma Mater, but have made provision in our by- 
laws that no one should be elected to honorary membership. 

The anniversary of the founding of the Society is cele- 
brated every year by a banquet or a social function. On 
this occasion members of the graduating class — a number 
not exceeding ten per cent of the enrollment for that year — 
who have gained the requisite grade are initiated. 

Public addresses have been delivered by such well-known 
men as President Charles F. Thwing, of Western Reserve 
University, Professor Rufus B. Richardson, former director 
of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 
Greece, the late Professor George Barker Stevens, of Yale 
University, and Dr. Charles Forster Smith, Professor of 
Greek at the University of Wisconsin. Vanderbilt has been 
represented in the National Council by the President of the 
Chapter, Professor C. E. Little, and Professor J. T. McGill. 

While our membership increases from year to year, the 
Alpha of Tennessee guards zealously that high standard 
which has characterized the Society for over a century and 
a quarter. May Phi Beta Kappa men, both here and in 
our other colleges, show more and more the true American 
aristocracy, the spirit of men bound together by fraternal 
ties of scholarship and character and dedicated to the 
service of their fellows I H. C. Tolman. 

January i, 1914. 



GRADUATE OFFICERS OF THE VANDERBILT 

CHAPTER. 



Presideiit. 

Professor Herbert Cushing Tolman, Ph.D., S.T.D., 
LL.D., ^ B K (Yale). 

Vice Presidents, 

Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland, Ph.D., LL.D., 
D.C.L., <E> B K (Vanderbilt). 

Lewis Baxter, M.A., $ B K (Hobart). 

Professor St. George Leakin Sioussat, Ph.D., ^ B K 
(Johns Hopkins). 

C or res ponding" Secretary, 
George Radford Mayfield, M.A., ^ B K (Vanderbilt). 

Recording Secretary, 
Professor John Thomas McGill, Ph.D., ^ B K (Vanderbilt). 

Treasurer. 

Professor Charles Edgar Little, Ph.D., ^ B K (Vander- 
bilt). 

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UNDERGRADUATE OFFICERS FROM THE 
CLASS OF 1914. 

President, 
Charles Kendall Leslie, Jr. 

Secretaiy, 
LoNNiE Otto Wilkerson. 

Assistant Treasurei-, 
Earl Bauer Stilz. 

(10) 



HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE 
VANDERBILT CHAPTER. 

A CHARTER of the historic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, 
was voted to Vanderbilt University by the Triennial Council 
which met at Saratoga, N. Y., September 12, 1901. The 
history of the movement toward this end, as well as a brief 
outline of the object and regulations of the ancient Society, 
cannot fail to be of interest. 

Alpha Theta Phi. 

The formation of the Alpha Theta Phi Society was de- 
scribed in the Hustler of the date December, 1894, and is 
here reprinted: 

A long- felt want at Vanderbilt has at last been supplied by the 
organization of a Senior society upon a basis of scholarship alone. 
This was consummated last week by the receipt of a charter fran- 
chising the Beta Chapter of the Alpha Theta Phi. 

The movement was set on foot about Christmas by a few mem- 
bers of the Senior Class, whose object was to obtain a charter from 
Phi Beta Kappa, the Society of this character of national reputa- 
tion, and the oldest of all college fraternities. Dr. H. C. Tolman, 
who is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, was visited and the project 
laid before him. He was most heartily in favor of the movement, 
and to his enthusiastic assistance is due the speedy and satisfactory 
conclusion above announced. 

In fact, Dr. Tolman had organized a local society at the Uni- 
versity of North Carolina last year, modeled closely after Phi 
Beta Kappa, its chief features being nonsecrecy and the attain- 
ment of a certain scholarship as sole condition of admission. The 
objects of the organization were to elevate the standard of scholar- 
ship in the University, and, incidentally, to obtain a charter from 
Phi Beta Kappa. The society took the name of Alpha Theta Phi, 
and adopted a gold triangle, suitably engraved, worn as a watch 
charm, for its badge. Several applications for charters of this so- 



12 Vanderbilt Chapter, 

ciety were received from various Southern colleges, but it was de- 
cided that promiscuous extension would injure their chances for the 
wished-for charter, so none were granted. 

Vanderbilt may be congratulated, however, that her standard 
of scholarship is recognized as such that, when an application for a 
charter was made through Dr. Tolman, it w^as gladly granted. Its 
receipt last week completed the organization of the Beta Chapter. 
It is not probable, for reasons above given, that any more chapters 
will be formed ; and it is hoped, in spite of the well-known con- 
servatism of Phi Beta Kappa, that, with the help of the members 
of that Society in the Faculties of the two institutions, charters 
will be procured within a few years at most. 

According to the constitution of Alpha Theta Phi, each student 
has two opportunities to gain admission : if his average for the first 
two and one-half years of his course qualifies him for admission, 
he becomes a member ; if, not making quite the required grade in 
that time, his work during the remainder of his course brings his 
scholarship to the required point, he is initiated after his final Sen- 
ior examination. 

We cite a few extracts from the Constitution of the So- 
ciety : 

Object. — The object of the Society is to stimulate and increase 
a desire for sound scholarship. 

Eligibility, — All students are eligible to membership who have 
attained an average grade of at least ^6 per cent during the first two 
and one-half years in college, or during the entire four years. 

Tifne of Election, — There shall be two periods of election. The 
first shall take place after the intermediate examination of Junior 
year ; the second, after the final examination of Senior year. 

Badge. — The badge of the Society shall be the Greek letter 
"Delta," or an equilateral triangle with two sides broad and one 
narrow. The triangular shape signifies completeness, and sug- 
gests molding character into symmetry. On the lower broad side 
shall be inscribed the Greek characters "Alpha Theta Phi," which 
are the initial letters of the words 'AXiJ^eta ®v/xov <l>ajs ("Truth the 
Light of the Mind") ; on the oblique broad side shall be inscribed 
"Vanderbilt University." On the reverse lower broad side shall 
be inscribed the Latin motto " Veritas Animi Lux ;" on the re- 
verse oblique side shall be inscribed the name of the member. 



Phi Beta Kaffa. 13 

A complete list of members of Alpha Theta Phi, since the 
Chapter's establishment at Vanderbilt, is given below: 

Class of i8g^. 

R. L. Lund, Ben Childers, 

C. P. Williams, J. Y. Bayliss, 

M. C. Ketchum, H. J. Livingston, 

W. K. Matthews, Miss Gertrude Jones. 

Class of i8q6. 

W. H. Johnson, J. W. Hanner, 

E. R. Smith, Campbell Bonner, 

L. J. Loventhal, C. R. Baskervill, 

Cummins Ratcliffe, T. H. Brewer, 

C. E. Dunbar, H. F. Crenshaw, 

E. M. Rankin, Miss Mabelle Flippin, 

Miss Jean Courtney, Miss Minnie E. Keiser. 

Class of i8gy. 
S. H. Werlein, W. D. Strayhorn, 

C. E. Hawkins, G. J. Nunn. 

Class of 1898. 

J. M. Williams, Oscar Teague. 

Miss Marion Kirkland, 

Class of i8gg. 
W. M. Patterson, H. J. Daily, 

W. F. Bradshaw, W. B. Long, 

W. J. Howard, W. M. Bush. 

Class of I goo. 
John Bell Tansil. 

Class of I go I. 

Thomas Motlow, J. G. Winston. 

Herbert Gannaway, 

Class of igo2. 
G. C. Scoggin, George B. Baskervill, 

Miss Daisy Hemphill, Miss Martha M. Maney. 

Miss Amelia McT. Baskervill, 



14 Vanderhilt Chapter'. 

Application for a o b K Charter. 

After seven years of existence at Vanderbilt, during which* 
time it was clearly proved that the permanency of a scholar- 
ship society was assured, the following letter was sent to the 
leading colleges of the country : 

Vanderbilt University, Jan. i, 1901. 

My Dear Prof. .* I write to ask the indorsement of the 

Chapter of for the establishment of the Phi Beta Kappa Soci- 
ety at Vanderbilt University. For six years there has existed a 
scholastic society (Alpha Theta Phi), modeled in every respect 
after Phi Beta Kappa, eligibility being determined solely by high 
standing. . . . As our application, with indorsements, must be 
in the hands of the Senate at least six months before the meeting 
of the National Council next September, I ask that your Chapter 
take as speedy action as possible. H. C. Tolman, 

Phi Beta Kappa {Tale). 

We quote from the provision of the Constitution of Phi 
Beta Kappa respecting new charters: ** VI. Application for 
charters shall, in all cases, be made to the Senate at least 
six months before the meeting of the National Council; the 
Senate shall at once notify all the Chapters of such appli- 
cations, and such applications shall be reported to the Na- 
tional Council, with the recommendation of the Senate, at 
the next meeting of the Council, and shall be passed upon 
by the Council, which shall have exclusive power to grant 
charters. But no charters shall be issued without the con- 
sent of delegations representing a majorit}^ of the Chapters.'' 
Furthermore, the By-Laws require that all applications for 
future Chapters shall have the indorsement of at least five 
existing Chapters prior to presentation to the Senate. 

The replies to the letter cited above were cordial, and in 
nearly every case favorable. Several of the colleges stated 
that they could not take action until the June meeting of their 
Chapter, which date would be too late to meet the require- 
ments of the Senate. Indorsements were received from: 



Phi Beta Kaffa. 15 

Boston University, Rutgers College, 

University of California, Swarthmore College, 

Colgate University, Syracuse University, 

Hobart College, Wabash College, 

State University of Iowa, Wesleyan University, 

University of Kansas, University of Wisconsin, 

University of Nebraska, Yale University. 

Vanderbilt's application, which is cited below, was for- 
warded in the early part of February, together with a copy 
of the regulations for eligibility which we should adopt. 
These regulations are in accord with what has been the spirit 
of Phi Beta Kappa since its foundation. 

To the Senate, Phi Beta Kappa. 

Gentle7nen : Vanderbilt University has the honor to make ap- 
plication, through you, to the National Council for the establish- 
ment of a Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at this institution. 

There has existed here for several years a scholastic society, 
eligibility to which is conditioned on attaining at least an average 
grade of eighty-six per cent for the first two years and a half of the 
college course. The society has received application for its exten- 
sion, but such application has been refused, since from its incep- 
tion its sole purpose has been to work toward obtaining a charter 
of Phi Beta Kappa by showing that the standard of Phi Beta 
Kappa could be securely maintained. In case a charter of Phi Beta 
Kappa be granted to Vanderbilt University, our regulations re- 
garding membership eligibility would be as follows : 

(1) Members \vill be elected solely from the Academic Depart- 
ment, where Latin and Greek, or Latin and a modern language, 
are required. 

(2) The scholastic standard for eligibility will be eighty-six per 
cent, w^hich, according to our system of marking, will restrict mem- 
bership to one-tenth of each class. 

(3) The time of election will be at the end of the Junior year. 
Another opportunity for election will be afforded at the end of the 



1 6 Vanderbilt Chapter, 

Senior year, in case the record of the last year has raised the student's 
average grade for his entire four years to the required standard. 
(4) No person will be elected to honorary membership. 

Herbert Gushing Tolman, ^ B K (Yale), 

Professor of Greek^ Vanderbilt University ; 

Hiram Albert Vance, «^ B K (Hamilton), 

Professor of the English Language^ University of Nashville; 

James Hampton Kirkland, 

Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, 

On March 5, 1901, a letter was received from Prof. E. B. 
Parsons, Williams College, Secretary of the United Chap- 
ters, which is given in full: 

Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., ) 
March 2, 1901. ) 

My Dear Prof, Tohnan : It gives me pleasure to say that to- 
day, by unanimous vote of the Senate, your University was rec- 
ommended to the National Council for a charter of Phi Beta 
Kappa. The Council will meet at Saratoga, N. Y., September 
12, 1901. 

With salutations and congratulations to yourself and your Fac- 
ulty, cordially yours, E. B. Parsons, 

Secretary Phi Beta Kappa, 

Next came the announcement that the National Coun- 
cil, at its triennial meeting, had voted to receive Vanderbilt 
into the old and honored brotherhood of Phi Beta Kappa, 
a brotherhood of scholars which numbers twenty-seven 
thousand members. The official notification authorizing the 
establishment of a chapter at Vanderbilt is dated October 
23, 1901. 

Herbert Gushing Tolman and Hiram Albert Vance. 

Dear Brothers in Phi Beta Kappa: 

I take pleasure in forwarding to you by this mail, in registered 
package, the Charter for which you petitioned, and which the Na- 
tional Council of the United Chapters, in triennial session at Sar- 
atoga Springs, N. Y., on September 12 last, duly granted. A 
copy of the Constitution and By-Laws of the United Chapters 
and a model Constitution for such new Chapter of the form pre- 
scribed by the National Council, are also included. With these 



Phi Beta Kaf fa, 1 7 

documents you are fully authorized and empowered to institute 
the new Chapter in such manner as may commend itself to you. 

When you have completed the organization of the new Chapter 
you will, I trust, transmit to me an account of the proceedings of 
your foundation meeting, a list of the members initiated, and the 
officers chosen, and such other information as you may deem of 
general interest to the fraternity. 

The confident hope and trust of the United Chapters is hereby 
expressed that this Chapter, under your fostering care and wise 
guidance, will in its membership maintain that high standard of 
character and attainment which has characterized the membership 
of the Society in a long past, and which has rendered honorable 
everywhere the appellation of Phi Beta Kappa. 

Sincerely and fraternally yours, Oscar M. Voorhees, 

Secretary of the United Chapters. 

Phi Beta Kappa. 

The Alpha of Alabama existed in early days, but it v^as 
for many years defunct. Later the Alpha of Alabama was 
revived and recognized by the National Council in 1913. 

A list of existing Chapters up to the year 1901 (the date 
of the foundation of the Vanderbilt Chapter), arranged in 
chronological order, is as follows : 

William and Mary College, Va., December 5, 1776; Yale 
University, 1780; Harvard University, 1780; Dartmouth, 
1787; Union University, 1817; Bowdoin College, 1824; 
Brown University, 1830; Trinity College, 1845; Wesleyan 
University, 1845; Western Reserve, 1847; University of 
Vermont, 1848; Amherst, 1853; Kenyon, 1858; New York 
University, 1858; Marietta College, i860; Williams College, 
1864; College of the City of New York, 1867; Columbia 
University, 1868; Middlebury College, 1868; Hamilton Col- 
lege, 1869; Rutgers College, 1869; Hobart College, 1871; 
Colgate University, 1875; Cornell University, 1882; Roches- 
ter University, 1886; Lehigh University, 1886; Dickinson 
College, 1886; Lafayette College, 1889; DePauw Universi- 
ty, 1889; Northwestern University, 1889; Tufts College, 
1892; University of Pennsylvania, 1892; University of Min- 
nesota, 1892; Swarthmore College, 1895; Johns Hopkins 



l8 Vanderbilt Chapter, 

University, 1895 ; Syracuse University, 1895 ; Colby Univer- 
sity, 1895 ; University of Iowa, 1895 ; University of Nebras- 
ka, 1895; Boston University, 1898; University of Chicago, 
1898; University of California, 1898; Haverford College, 
1898; University of Cincinnati, 1898; Princeton University, 
1898; Wabash College, 1898; St. Lawrence University, 
1898; Vassar College, 1898; University of Wisconsin, 1898; 
Allegheny College, 1901; University of Missouri, 1901 ; 
Vanderbilt University, 1901. 

A brief list of eminent menwho were members of Phi 
Beta Kappa would embrace such names as Chief Justice 
John Marshall, James D. Dana, Jeremiah Day, Elias Loomis, 
W. W. Phelps, Noah Porter, Benjamin Silliman, Theodore 
Dwight Woolsey, Charles Francis Adams, John Quincy 
Adams, George Bancroft, Phillips Brooks, Ralph Waldo 
Emerson, Edward Everett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James 
Russell Lowell, William H. Prescott, Charles Sumner, Ezra 
Abbot, Jacob Abbott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry W. Long- 
fellow, Franklin Pierce, Horace Mann, Rufus Choate, Daniel 
Webster, Chester A. Arthur, William Cullen Bryant, James 
A. Garfield, Mark Plopkins, William Dwight Whitney. 

Notable Phi Beta Kappa orations, have been delivered by 
Edward Everett, Emerson, Peabody, Sumner, Beecher, 
Woolsey, Storrs, Porter, Phillips; and poems have been re- 
cited by Bryant, Holmes, Emerson, and Longfellow. 

** In the interesting record published by President Tyler,'* 
says Prof. Parsons in his ** Catalogue of the United Chap- 
ters,'* *' are the names and personal sketches of the half hun- 
dred members of the first Phi Beta Kappa. They were men 
who had an active share in the stirring affairs of the Revolu- 
tion, and in camp and legislative hall performed their parts 
in the contest for freedom. Nearly all of the fifty were in 
the Continental army; seventeen were in the State Legisla- 
ture, most of them for several terms; eight were members 
of the convention which ratified the Federal Constitution; 
five were members of the national House of Representa- 
tives, and two of the national Senate. The State Conven- 
tion of 1788 and the Legislatures of 1783 to 1787 could readily 
hold Phi Beta Kappa meetings, as a considerable number of 



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(From Phi Beta Kappa Key, i, ii, 4.) 



Phi Beta Kappa, I9 

the Society were always present. Some of the men became 
leaders in national affairs: Heath, the first President of the 
Society, was in the Legislature when barely twenty-two, and 
ten years later in Congress ; Archibald Stuart, member of 
both Houses, presidential elector and judge, a leading man 
of the South till his death ; Bickley was Clerk of the Conven- 
tion of 1788, as afterwards he was of Congress; Bushrod 
Washington, the favorite nephew of President Washington, 
and the inheritor of Mount Vernon, was an Associate Justice 
of the United States ; Short, the second President of the So- 
ciety, was Secretary of Legation in France when Jefferson 
was the Minister, and afterwards was himself an eminent di- 
plomatist; the names of Cabel and Clements, Fitzhugh and 
Hardy, Mason and Madison and Lee, were well known in 
Virginia affairs. Perhaps the most widely known member of 
the original fifty was John Marshall, whose record as lawyer, 
legislator, and Chief Justice is a part of national story." 

.Mr. George Birbeck Hill, in his book *' Harvard College, 
by an Oxonian," fitly describes the Phi Beta Kappa Society 
as *'the aristocracy in a democratic country," and that is 
what Phi Beta Kappa has ever stood for ; not the aristocracy 
of birth or wealth, but the true American aristocracy of 
scholarship and character. Over one hundred years ago 
the Secretary of the Harvard Chapter wrote : '*I conceive that 
the institution of the Phi Beta Kappa will have a happy tend- 
ency to destroy prejudices that too frequently subsist between 
different universities, and make them act on a more liberal 
principle, and seek the mutual advantage of the several soci- 
eties with which they may by their institution be connected." 

The ^ B K Key the Badge of the Scholar. 
Admission to the Society is not only a mark of honor 
which the college bestows upon its most worthy sons, but 
it entitles the member to the privileges of that Fraternity of 
Scholars which is coextensive with the United States. Of 
thirteen colleges applying for a charter at the 1901 meeting 
of the National Council, Vanderbilt was one of three which 
were successful. Unless Johns Hopkins be classed as a 
Southern institution, Vanderbilt University became the first 



20 Vmiderhilt Chaffer. 

college in the South to receive a charter from the United 
Chapters. 

The First Meeting. 

The first meeting of Phi Beta Kappa in Vanderbilt Uni- 
versity was held November 5, 1901. The order of business 
was as follows: (i) Calling to Order; (2) Prayer (Bishop 
Hargrove); (3) Reading of Official Notification of Action 
of National Council; (4) Reading of Charter; (5) Short 
History of the United Chapters; (6) Reading of the Con- 
stitution; (7) Initiation of Members; (8) Adoption of By- 
Laws; (9) Election of Officers. 

The Charter. 

To Herbert Gushing Toi.man and Hiram Albert 
Vance, Brethren of the Phi Beta Kappa — Greeting : 

Whereas the National Council of the United Chapters of 
the Phi Beta Kappa Society has by resolution duly adopted on 
the 1 2th day of September, 1901, decreed the establishment of a 
Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa in connection with Vanderbilt 
University, at Nashville, Tennessee, and has directed the Senate 
by the President and Secretary to issue a charter in the name of 
the National Council : — Now, therefore, by virtue of the afore- 
said act of the Council and the authority delegated to us, we do 
hereby incorporate and establish you and such others as you may 
hereafter elect and associate with yourselves, in conformity to the 
law of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, into a separate and sub- 
ordinate branch of said society to be known and called the Alpha 
Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa in the State of Tennessee ; 
hereby granting unto you and your successors all the powers, 
privileges, and benefits thereunto appertaining, in as full and 
ample a measure as the brethren of the other and existing chap- 
ters enjoy ; at the same time enjoining upon you in the organiza- 
tion and conduct of the new chapter, and as a condition upon 
which this charter is granted, strict compliance with the Constitu- 
tion of the United Chapters and the Model Constitution herewith 
transmitted to you. 

In witness whereof the said Senate has caused the seal of the 
United Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa to be affixed hereto, 
with the signatures of the President and the Secretary. 

J. A. De Remer, President ; 
Oscar M. Voorhees, Secretary, 



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Brethren of the Phi Beta Kappa — GREETING 
Whereas the National Council of the" United Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa 
Society has by resolution duly adopted on the /-2_- day oi .,^4:^'-^t^^'t^-'^~*-^-^/?<i/' 
decreed the establishment of a Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa in connection with 

and has directed the Senate by the President and Secretary to issue a charter in the 
name of the National Council: — Now.'therefore, by virtue of the aforesaid act of the 
Council and the authority delegated to us, we do hereby incorporate and establish 
you and such others as you may hereafter elect and associate with yourselves, ia 
conformity to the law of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, into a separate and 
subordinate branch of said society to be known and called the Coo^^^^ -^^ 

Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa in the state of Q^^^-g^-^-i-^t-g-^-i-^-^ . .; hereby 

granting unto you and your successors all the powers, privileges, and benefits 
thereunto appertaining, in as full and ample a measure as the brethren of the 
other and existing chapters enjoy, at the same time enjoining upon you in the 
organization and conduct of the new chapter, and as a condition upon which 
this charter is granted, strict compliance with the Constitution of the United 
Chapters and the Model Constitution herewith transmitted to you. 

In witness whereof the said Senate has caused the seal of the United 
Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa to be affixed hereto, with the signatures of the 
President and the Secretary. 





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Phi Beta Kappa, 21 

The Alpha of Tennessee. 

Drs. Tolman and Vance received into membership of the 
Vanderbilt University Chapter (i) their brethren of Phi 
Beta Kappa at that date connected with the University, to- 
wit: Bishop Robert Kennon Hargrove, $ B K (University 
of Alabama), Bishop Eugene Russell Hendrix, $ B K 
(Wesleyan, Conn.), Professor William James Vaughn, 
$ B K (University of Alabama), Professor Leonidas Chal- 
mers Glenn, $ B K (Johns Hopkins), Professor Timothy 
Cloran, 4> B K (Western Reser^-e), Elliot W. Kirk, $ B K 
(Wabash). By virtue of the authority delegated to them 
by the Senate, Drs. Tolman and Vance associated with 
themselves in the establishment of the Chapter (2) the Chan- 
cellor of the University, Dr. James Hampton Kirkland, and 
the graduate and student members of that Vanderbilt schol- 
arship society (A © ^) described in the application to the 
Senate. On the initiation of its members into ^ B K, the 
A $ scholarship society at Vanderbilt ceased to exist. 

As a graduate of Vanderbilt University who attained in 
undergraduate years a grade of high standard, and by vir- 
tue of his graduate work of distinction, John Thomas Mc- 
Gill, '79, Ph.D., was elected to membership under the pro- 
vision of the charter constitution that members may be elect- 
ed **from those graduates of said college whose postgrad- 
uate work entitles them to such honor." 

The members of the Senior class ('02) who had at- 
tained an average grade of S6 per cent during the three 
years of their college course just passed had the unique 
honor of being the first Senior class of Vanderbilt Univer- 
sity to be admitted in their undergraduate days to the priv- 
ileges of Phi Beta Kappa. 

The Public Foundation Meeting. 

The Public Foundation Meeting of the Vanderbilt Chap- 
ter was celebrated in the University Chapel December 5, 
1901, a date which coincided with the one hundred and 
twent3^-fifth anniversary of the Society. An elaborate pro- 
gramme was rendered, which is printed in full. 



22 Vanderbtlt Chapter, 

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 
HISTORIC SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETY 

PHI BETA KAPPA 

AND 

The Public Foundation Meeting of the Vanderbtlt Chapter 

PR O GRAM 

PRAYER BY THE REVEREND PROFESSOR J. H. STEVENSON, 
PH.D. 

HYMN: "O GOD. BENEATH THY GUIDING HAND" 

O God, beneath thy guiding hand, 

Our exiled fathers crossed the sea; 
And when thej trod the wintry strand, 

With prayer and Psalm they worshiped thee. 

Thou heard'st, well pleased, the song, the prayer. 

Thy blessing came; and still its power 
Shall onward through all ages bear 

The memory of that holy hour. 

Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God 
Came with those exiles o'er the waves; 

And where their pilgrim feet have trod, 
The God they trusted guards their graves. 

And here thy name, O God of love, 

Their children's children shall adore, 
Till these eternal hills remove, 

And spring adorns the earth no more. 

READING OF THE CHARTER FOR THE ALPHA OF TENNES- 
SEE BY HERBERT GUSHING TOLMAN, PH.D., D.D., PHI 
BETA KAPPA, YALE, PROFESSOR OF GREEK, VANDER- 
BILT UNIVERSITY 

MALE CHORUS, FESTIVAL MARCH 

Conductor, Mr. John Ashford Accompanist, Mrs. E. L. Ashford 

Mr. James T. Camp Mr. A. J. Morgan 

Mr. C. L. Chilton Mr. E. K. Odell 

Mr. R. T. E. Cornelius Mr. E. L. Peerman 

Mr. Glenn Flinn Mr. Erskine Reed 

Mr. William Ganderton Prof. Charles W. Starr 

Mr. C. C. Green Mr. Carl F. Stough 

Mr. W. G. Henry Mr. J. Paul Tyler 

Mr. Elliot W. Kirk Mr. F. T. Welburn 

Mr. Robert Lyle Mr. S. K. Welburn 

Mr. Charles S. Martin Mr. Walter Yarbrough 



Phi Beta Kaffa. 23 

PHI BETA KAPPA AT WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE, VIR- 
GINIA, BY WILLIAM ROBERTSON GARRETT, PH.D., PHI 
BETA KAPPA, WILLIAM AND MARY, PROFESSOR OF 
HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE 

THE UNITED CHAPTERS, BY HIRAM ALBERT VANCE, PH.D., 
PHI BETA KAPPA, HAMILTON, PROFESSOR OF THE EN- 
GLISH LANGUAGE, UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE 

TRIO FOR VIOLINS; DEDICATION MUSIC COMPOSED BY 
MESSRS. GUEST AND SMITH FOR THE FOUNDATION 
MEETING OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AT VANDERBILT 
UNIVERSITY 

[The three violin parts represent the three original Alphas; 
William and Mary, Yale, Harvard] 

Mr. Alfred E. Howell 
Mr. J. Hough Guest 
Mr. George Smith 



PHI BETA KAPPA AT VANDERBILT, BY CHANCELLOR JAMES 
HAMPTON KIRKLAND, PH.D., LL.D., PHI BETA KAPPA, 
VANDERBILT 



MALE CHORUS: HORACE, ODE I. 22 

Integer vitae scelerisque purus 
Non eget Mauris jaculis neque arcu 
Nee venenatis gravida sagittis, 

Fusee, phareta, 
Sive per syrtes, iter aestuosas 
Sive faeturus per inhospitalem 
Caueasum vel quae loea fabulosus 

Lambit Hydaspes. 

Namque me silva lupus in Sabina, 
Dum meam eanto Lalagen et ultra 
Terminum curis vagor expeditis, 

Fugit inermem. 
Quale portentum neque militaris 
Daunias latis alit aeseuletis. 
Nee Jubae tellus generat, leonum 

Arida nutrix. 

BENEDICTION BY BISHOP O. P. FITZGERALD, D.D. 



24 Vanderbilt Chapter. 

Nine American colleges were represented on this occa- 
sion, while the Phi Beta Kappa procession, arrayed in aca- 
demic cap, gown, and hood, numbered nineteen. Among 
the letters of congratulation received two are quoted here, 
the former because it brings cordial fraternal greeting from 
the distant North to our Southern Chapter, the latter because 
it comes from a college of our own State with which Vander- 
bilt every year contends for athletic honors, but which in 
the higher sphere of scholarship and education is of one 
heart and hand with us. 



DEPARTMENT OF 
MODERN GOVERNMENT AND C AmHERST CoLLEGE, 

INTERNATIONAL LAW. ' ' 



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Amherst, Mass., Dec. 2, 1901. 
Herbert Gushing Tolman, Ph.D., D.D., Nashville, Tenn. 

My Deal' Sir : Please accept my thanks for the programme of 
the forthcoming establishment of a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at 
Vanderbilt University. In no way could the one hundred and 
twenty-fifth anniversary be more worthily celebrated. The Beta 
of Massachusetts congratulates the Fraternity on the accession of 
the Alpha of Tennessee, to which it extends its v^arm fraternal 
greetings and its best wishes. 

Fraternally yours, Edwin A. Grosvenor. 

President of the Beta of Massachusetts 

{University of the South, 
Sewanee, Tenn., December 4, 1901. 

Prof. H. C. Tolman, Ph.D., D.D., Vanderbilt Campus, Nashville, Tenn. 

Dear Sir : I acknow^ledge with grateful thanks the receipt of 
your most kind invitation to attend the Phi Beta Kappa exercises 
to be held in your University Chapel, and regret that the accumu- 
lation of work incident to our closing year will prevent me from 
being present. Meanwhile pray allow me to congratulate your 
foundation upon the entrance into its life of this noble organiza- 
tion which I hope may sooner or later come to us, and, believe 
me, with renewed expressions of appreciation, 

Sincerely yours, B. J. Ramage. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE ORIGINAL ^ B K MINUTES 
WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE, 1776-1781. 

On Thursday, the 5th of December, in the year of our Lord 
God one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and the first of 
the commonwealth, a happy spirit and resolution of attaining the 
important ends of society entering the minds of John Heath, 
Thomas Smith, Richard Booker, Armstead Smith, and John 
Jones, and afterwards seconded by others, prevailed, and was ac- 
cordingly ratified. 

And for the better establishment and sanctitude of our una- 
nimity, a square silver medal was agreed on and instituted, en- 
graved on the one side with S. P., the inititals of the Latin S 

P , and on the other, agreeable to the former, with the Greek 

initials of <E> B K, and an index imparting a philosophical design, 
extended to the three stars, a part of the planetary orb, dis- 
tinguished. 





THE SILVER <l> B K MEDAL OF I776. 

The *' oath of fidelity " reads: 

I, A. B., do swear on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God, 
or otherwise, as calling the Supreme Being to attest this my 
oath, declaring that I will, w^ith all my possible efforts, endeavor 
to prove true, just, and deeply attached to this our growing fra- 
ternity ; in keeping, holding, and preserving all secrets that per- 
tain to my duty, and for the promotion and advancement of its 
internal welfare. 

(25) 



26 Vanderbilt Chapter, 

March i, 1777. 

Resolved: i. That in every design or attempt, whether great 
or small, we ought to invoke the Deity, by some private sacrifice 
or devotion, for a fraternal prosperity. 

3. That every member, after being properly initiated, shall be 
obliged to furnish himself with a medal, wholly corresponding 
with those of the Fraternity. 

10. That for the encouragement of any new invention of arts 
and sciences, some premium be allowed from the public treasu- 
ry. 

11, That six members shall be the fewest sufficient for the 
execution of business. 

16. That the President be invested with the prerogative of 
convening the members of this fraternity, w^hen he shall deem it 
expedient. 

22. That no member shall be expelled without the unanimous 
concurrence of the Society. 

23. That every person, after being initiated, pay into the public 
treasury the sum of 6s. 

August 22, 1778. 

Resolved : That, as the price of initiation hitherto paid is inade- 
quate to the purpose, it be augmented to five dollars. 

^ay 4, 1779. 

It being suggested that it might tend to promote the designs 
of this Institution and redound to the honor and advantage there- 
of at the same time, that others more remote or distant will be at- 
tached thereto. 

Resolved: That leave be given to prepare the form or ordi- 
nance of a charter party, to be intrusted with such two or more 
brothers of the O B K as to a general meeting shall, on due 
application for the same, be thought to merit such a trust ; with 
delegated power in the plan and principles therein laid down, to 
constitute, establish, and initiate a fraternity correspondent to this, 
and that a committee be appointed of Mr President, Mr. Stuart, 
and Mr. Beckley to prepare a draft of the same and report at next 
meeting. 

June 27, 1779. 

Resolved: That, as the price of initiation hitherto paid is inad- 
equate to the purpose, it be augmented to ten dollars. 



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Through tlie kindness of Hon. John De \Vitt Warner, from his article •■ 4> B K the Oldest Greek Letter Frater- 

nit}^," in the A K E ^iiai'terly, 1SS7. 

Facsimile of the minutes of the meeting which voted the Yale Chapter of * B K, later 
designated the Alpha of Connecticut. In April, 1781, there were initiated Ezra Stiles, Jr., 
Samuel Newell, Reuben Parmelie, Linde Lord. 

Several months after this the Harvard Chapter was organized. 



Phi Beta Kaffa, 27 

July 31, 1779. 
Mr Elijah Parmale is recommended as a worthy member of 
this Society, and on a ballot taken he is unanimously elected and 
initiated in due form. 

December 4, 1779. 
Petition of Mr. Parmelie for a Charter Party to institute a 
liranch of this Society at Cambridge, in Massachusetts, granted. 
To be called EttctiAov. 

December 9, 1779. 

Mr. President, leaving the chair, called Mr, Stuart to the same. 
The Clerk being absent, Mr. Brent is appointed j[>ro tempore. 

Whereas this Society is desirous that the $ B K should be 
extended to each of the United States ; 

Resolved: That a second charter be granted to our brother, 
Mr. Elisha Parmele, for establishing a meeting of the same in the 
college of New Haven, in Connecticut, to be of the same rank, 
to have the same power, and to enjoy the same privileges with 
that which he is empowered to fix in the University of Cam- 
iDridge. To be called the Z^ra. 

An adjournment took place. W. Short, President. 

1 78 1. On Saturday, the 6th of January, a meeting of $ B K 
w^as called for the purpose of securing the papers of the Society 
during the confusion of the times, and the present dissolution 
which threatens the University. 

The members who attended were William Short, Daniel C. 
Brent, Spencer Roane, Peyton Short, and Landon Cabell. They, 
thinking it most advisable that the papers should not be removed, 
determined to deliver them sealed into the hands of the College 
Steward, to remain w^ith him until the desirable event of the So- 
ciety's resurrection. And this deposit they make in the sure and 
certain hope that the Fraternity will one day rise to life everlast- 
ing and glory immortal. 

The original records of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and 
Ijrief personal sketches of the first fifty members were edited 
l)y President Lyon G. Tyler in the William and Mar}^ Col- 
lege Quarterly, April, 1896. 



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Vandei'bilt Cha;pter. 



THE CIPHER LETTER. 

This letter is recorded as " truely decyphered " by Enos Bron- 
son. We find in the Yale Catalogue the name of Enos Bronson, 
4> B K, 1798. In the following key to the Cipher the letters of 
the upper row interchange with those of the lower, and vice versa. 
For the sake of convenience w^e have changed the order of the 
groups as given in the original table published in the Catalogue of 
the Harvard Chapter, 191 2, p. 97. 



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Cambridge University, March 23d, 1782. 

No. I. 
Yzrbdzczr : 
Gentlemen; 

Iz buqz bpwx zundwzxb fhhfnbarwbg bf wrofnc gfa bpub uynzzutdg bf u 

We take this earliest opportunity to inforju you that agreeably to a 

mpunbzn onf c Iwddwucxtanyp bpz $ B K Xf niwzbg iux zxbutdwxpzl ub bpwx 

charter from Willia7nshurg the 4» B K Society -vsas established at this 

Arwjznxwbg wr bpz cfrbp fo Vadg duxb, tu (sic) bpz rucz fo bpz AA(&a fo 

University in the month of July last, ba [by') the name of the A/.(pa of 

Cuxxumpaxzbbx. 

Massachttsetts. 

Fan zunrzxb Izxwnz bf mpznwxp bpfxz xzzlx fo onwzrlxpwh, udnzulg 
Our earnest desire to cherish those seeds of friendship, already 
hdurbzl, tu (sic) bpz cabaud mfccarwmubwfr fo yffl foowmzr pux zryuvzl 
planted, ba {by) the mutual conununicatioyi of good offices has engaged 
ax, bpfayp u gfaryzn xfmwzbg, bf uxq fo gfa bpz oujfn, url wrjwbz gfa bf 
us^ though a younger society ^ to ask of you the favor, and invite you to 
bpz uljurbuyzx fo u dwbznung mfnnzxhfrlzi-mz. 
the advantages of a literary correspondence. 

Ux iz pujz bpz wrbznzxb fo bpz bif Arwjznxwbwzx, ux izdd ux bpub fo bpz 

As tve have the interest of the trvo Universities, as ivell as that of the 

t^ifbpznx fo bpz $ B K \\v jwzi, iz iwxp gfa bf mfccarwmubz ipubzjzn manw- 

brothers of the <J> B K in vievj, tve ivish you to communicate ivhatever curi- 

fax, fn wchfnburb wr bpz dwbznung iug,cug oudd iwbpwr gfan ftxznjubwfr. — 

ouSy or importayit in the literary zuay, may fall -ivithin your observation. — 

Iz iwbp hdzuxanz urbwmwhubz bpz puhhg zcadubwfr, ipwmp caxb rzmzx- 

We ivith pleasure anticipate the happy etnulation, tvhich must neces- 

xunwdg unwxz wr zwbpzn xwxbzn, ipzr xpz xpudd bpax jwzi bpz xahznwfn 

sarily arise in either sister, ivheji she shall thus view the superior 

vnumzx url wchnfjzczrbx fo bpz fbpzn. Fan dwbbdz xfmwzbg pznz wx ub 

graces and improvements of the other. Our little society here zs at 





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Phi Beta Kappa. 29 

hnzxzrb wr u jzng odfanwxpwry xbubz. Bpz wchnfjzczrbx, ipwmp uhhzun 

present in a very jlourishing state. 71te improvements ^ tvhich appear 

wr zjzng czzbwry (url fan czzbwryx unz onzkazrb) ywjz ax bpz pwjpzn xub- 

in every meeting- {and our meetings are frequent") give us the higher sat- 

wxoumbwfr, ux iz ourmg bpznz unz qwrlnzl xhwnwbx bpnfajpbpz Mfrbw- 

isf action^ as xve fancy there are kindred spirits through the Conti- 
rzrb ipf tzpfdl bpzc iwbpfab ozzdwry bpz dzuxb zcfbwf rx fo zrjg. 
nent who behold them without feeling the least emotions of envy. 

Iz xpudd iwbp wchubwzrmz iuwb gfan urxizn, ipwdz iz nzcuwr gfan Iz- 
We shall ivitk impatience wait your answer^ while we retnain your de- 
jfbzl onwzrlx url tnzbpnzr. 
voted friends atid brethren. 

Bpz tnfbpznx fo bpz Al^a fo Cuxxumpaxzbbx. 
The brothers of the A.Xd>a of Massachusetts. 

Samuel Kendall, President. 

P. S. Iz iwxp gfa ifadl jwjz ax udd bpz wrofncubwfr gfa mur nzxhzmb- 
We wish you would give us all the information you can respect- 
wry bpz xfmwzbg ub Iwddwucxtanjp. 
ing the society at Williamsburgh. 



THE UNITED CHAPTERS. 

The Society of Scholars was brought into closer fellowship 
by the movement inaugurated by Harvard in 1881, which re- 
sulted in the Constitution of the United Chapters. The 
Chapters, arranged by States, are as follows: 

Alpha of Maine (Bowdoin). 

Beta of Maine (Colby). 

Alpha of New Hampshire (Dartmouth). 

Alpha of Vermont (University of Vermont). 

Beta of Vermont (Middlebury). 

Alpha of Massachusetts (Harvard). 

Beta of Massachusetts (Amherst). 

Gamma of Massachusetts (Williams). 

Delta of Massachusetts (Tufts). 

Epsilon of Massachusetts (Boston). 

Zeta of Massachusetts (Smith College), 

Eta of Massachusetts ( Wellesley College). 

Theta of Massachusetts (Mount Holyoke College)* 

Iota of Massachusetts (Radcliffe College). 

Alpha of Rhode Island (Brown). 

Alpha of Connecticut (Yale). 

Beta of Connecticut (Trinity). 

Gamma of Connecticut ( Wesleyan). 

Alpha of New York (Union). 

Beta of New York (University of City of New York), 

Gamma of New York (College of City of New York). 

Delta of New York (Columbia). 

Epsilon of New York (Hamilton). 

Zeta of New York (Hobart). 

Eta of New York (Colgate). 

Theta of New York (Cornell). 

Iota of New York (Rochester). 

Kappa of New York (Syracuse). 

Lambda of New York (St. Lawrence). 

Mu of New York (Vassar). 

Alpha of New Jersey (Rutgers). 

Beta of New Jersey (Princeton). 

(30) 



Phi Beta Kappa, 31 

Alpha of Pennsylvania (Dickinson). 

Beta of Pennsylvania (Lehigh). 

Gamma of Pennsylvania (Lafayette). 

Delta of Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania). 

Epsilon of Pennsylvania (Swarthmore). 

Zeta of Pennsylvania (Haverford). 

Eta of Pennsylvania (Allegheny). 

Theta of Pennsylvania (Franklin and Marshall). 

Alpha of Maryland (Johns Hopkins). 

Beta of Maryland (Goucher). 

Alpha of Virginia (William and Mary). 

Beta of Virginia (University of Virginia). 

Gamma of Virginia (Washington and Lee). 

Alpha of West Virginia (University of West Virginia). 

Alpha of Ohio (Western Reserve). 

Beta of Ohio (Kenyon). 

Gamma of Ohio (Marietta). 

Delta of Ohio (University of Cincinnati). 

Epsilon of Ohio (Ohio State University). 

Zeta of Ohio (Oberlin). 

Eta of Ohio (Ohio Wesleyan). 

Theta of Ohio (Denison). 

Iota of Ohio (Miami). 

Alpha of Indiana (De Pauw^). 

Beta of Indiana (Wabash). 

Gamma of Indiana (University of Indiana). 

Alpha of Illinois (Northw^estern). 

Beta of Illinois (University of Chicago). 

Gamma of Illinois (University of Illinois). 

Alpha of Tennessee (Vanderbilt). 

Alpha of North Carolina (University of North Carolina)^ 

Alpha of Alabama (University of Alabama). 

Alpha of Georgia (University of Georgia). 

Alpha of Michigan (University of Michigan). 

Alpha of Wisconsin (University of Wisconsin). 

Beta of Wisconsin (Beloit). 

Gamma of Wisconsin (Lawrence). 

Alpha of Minnesota (University of Minnesota). 

Beta of Minnesota (Carleton). 

Alpha of Iowa (University of Iowa). 



33 Vanderbilt Chapter, 

Beta of Iowa (Grinnell). 

Alpha of Missouri (University of Missouri). 

Beta of Missouri (Washington). 

Alpha of Nebraska (University of Nebraska). 

Alpha of Kansas (University of Kansas). 

Alpha of Colorado (University of Colorado). 

Beta of Colorado (Colorado College). 

Alpha of North Dakota (University of North Dakota) 

Alpha of California (University of California). 

Beta of California (Leland Stanford University). 

Gamma of California (Pomona). 

Alpha of Louisiana (Tulane). 

Alpha of Texas (University of Texas). 

Alpha of Washington (University of Washington). 

The General Catalogue of the United Chapters, with personal 
data of the members, is compiled by Professor E. B. Parsons, 
Williams College. 



CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE UNITED 

CHAPTERS. 



CONSTITUTION. 
Article I. 

COMPOSITION OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL. 

The National Council of the Phi Beta Kappa Society shall 
consist of the Senators hereinafter spoken of, and of delegates 
from the several Chapters of the Society. Each Chapter shall be 
entitled to send three delegates, who shall be graduates of at least 
live years' standing and members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
but not necessarily of the Chapter by which they are chosen. 

Article II. 

THE SENATE. 

The Senate shall originally consist of twenty Senators, chosen 
by the delegates at the first session of the National Council, 
from the Society at large. These shall be divided into two class- 
es, whose terms of office shall expire at the adjournment of alter- 
nate regular sessions of the National Council. At every subse- 
quent regular session the places of the outgoing class shall be 
filled by election as follows: On the day preceding the first day 
of each regular session of the National Council the Senate shall 
meet, and shall nominate fifteen candidates in addition to the 
members of the outgoing class for the ten vacant seats, and also 
two candidates for the unexpired term of each Senator who may 
have died or resigned since the last regular session. Other per- 
sons not nominated by the Senate may be presented as candidates 
at the time of the election. Of every ten members whose term 
of office shall expire, one may be elected by the Council Senator 
for life. In every election of Senators a majority of the votes 
cast shall be required to elect, and in such elections the outgoing 
Senators shall have no vote. The Senate may fill vacancies in its 
own body till the next meeting of the National Council. 
3 (33) 



24. Vanderbilt Chapte?\ 

Article III. 

OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL. 

The officers of the National Council shall be a President, a 
Vice President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, and such others as 
may be found necessary from time to time. The President shall 
be chosen from among the Senators. 

Article IV. 

SESSIONS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL. 

The National Council shall meet every third year at such place 
and time as shall have been determined by the officers of the 
United Chapters, and shall proceed at once to the election first of 
its officers and next of the Senators. The National Council shall 
make such rules as may be found necessary for the carrying out 
of any provision of this Constitution. 

Article V. 

THE SENATE AND ITS FUNCTIONS. 

During the sessions of the National Council the Senate shall 
have no separate existence, but its members shall take their places 
with the delegates as members of the National Council, voting 
with the delegates, as well upon all other matters as upon the 
election of officers and Senators, except as provided in Article II. 
When the National Council is not in session the Senate shall con- 
stitute an independent body, charged with the duty of represent- 
ing the Phi Beta Kappa Society and speaking in its name, and 
exercising, in addition, the functions of a permanent Executive 
Committee of the National Council. It shall hold its meetings at 
such times and places as it shall determine, being first called to- 
gether by that Senator who at the original election of the Senate 
shall have been elected by the largest number of votes. It shall 
recommend candidates for election as Senators. It shall also 
have power to call an extra session of the National Council. It 
shall furthermore prepare and recommend to the consideration 
of the National Council such matters as it may deem proper. It 
shall transmit its lists of candidates and of matters recommended 
for discussion, by the hands of the Secretary, to the presiding offi- 
cers of the National Council, immediately upon its organization 
being completed. It shall also transmit, in the same manner, to 



Phi Beta Kapfa, 35 

the National Council a report of its doings between the sessions 
of the Council. Nothing herein shall be so construed as to dero- 
gate from the right of the National Council to appoint commit- 
tees to sit between sessions, independently of the Senate, and to 
report at the next session. 

Article VI. 

NEW CHARTERS. 

Applications for charters shall in all cases be made to the Sen- 
ate at least six months before the regular session of the National 
Council ; the Senate shall at once notify all the Chapters of such 
applications, and such applications shall be reported to the Na- 
tional Council, with the recommendation of the Senate, at the next 
meeting of the Council, and shall be passed upon by the Council, 
which shall have exclusive power to grant charters. But no 
charters shall be issued without the consent of delegations rep- 
resenting the majority of the Chapters. 

Article VII. 

BY-LAWS AND RULES OF ORDER. 

The National Council, at any of its sessions, and the Senate, at 
any time, may respectively make such by-laws and rules of order 
as may be thought expedient for their use, provided the same be 
not inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Constitution. 
A quorum of the National Council shall consist of delegates from 
a majority of the Chapters, and not fewer than three Senators ; the 
Senate shall determine the number which shall constitute its quo- 
rum. (The present number is five.) 

Article VIII. 

RIGHTS OF CHAPTERS. 

Nothing contained in this Constitution shall be construed as 
empowering the Senate or the National Council to restrict or 
abridge the rights or privileges now exercised by existing Chap- 
ters, except as expressly provided herein. 

Article IX. 

AMENDMENTS TO THIS CONSTITUTION. 

No change shall be made in this Constitution unless the same 
shall have been proposed at the session of the National Council 



36 Vanderbilt Chapter, 

next preceding the session at which the proposed change is voted 
for ; and no vote shall be had upon any such proposed change 
except at a stated hour previously ordered by the meeting ; and 
no amendment shall be made without the concurrence of the dele- 
gations of two-thirds of the Chapters represented in the Council. 

Article X. 

ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. 

This Constitution shall take effect when ratified by fourteen 
Chapters. (Sixteen Chapters ratified it before July, 18S3.) 



BY-LAWS. 
I. 

ELECTIONS AND OFFICERS. 

All elections shall be by ballot. The President shall preside 
over the meetings of the Council. In his absence the Vice Pres- 
ident shall perform his duties. When both are absent a President 
pro tern shall be chosen viva voce. The Secretary shall keep the 
records of the Council, conduct its correspondence, and send to 
the Senate and to each Chapter a certified report of the pro- 
ceedings of each session. The Treasurer shall collect and dis- 
burse all funds of the Council, and report at each session thereof. 
(At the Council of 1892, the Treasurer requested that the finan- 
cial report be submitted to an auditor appointed by the Presi- 
dent after its presentation.) 

II. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

I. Calling the roll. 2. Reading the minutes. 3. Reports of 
officers. 4. Communications from the Senate on nominations. 
5. Election of officers, 6. Election of Senators. 7. Communica- 
tion from the Senate on new Chapters and other matters. 8, 
Miscellaneous business. 

III. 

VOTING. 

In all cases not otherwise provided for by the Constitution, 
each Senator and delegate present shall be entitled to cast one 



Phi Beta Kappa, 37 

vote. (In establishing new Chapters the Constitution requires a 
vote by delegations, each delegation having one vote.) 

IV. 

REGISTRATION AND ASSESSMENT. 

Each Chapter shall report promptly to the Secretary the names 
of all persons elected to membership. Such reports shall contain 
the information called for by the Secretary and shall be made on 
forms furnished by him. 

Each Chapter shall pay the sum of one dollar to the Treasurer 
for each person elected to membership of any type except associ- 
ate members. No Chapter shall pay an amount less than ten dol- 
lars for any triennium. 

Each new member so reported, with the accompanying fee of 
one dollar, shall be entitled to receive the Phi Beta Kappa Key 
for the term of one year, provided there is furnished an address 
to which The Key may be sent. The Key shall be sent for three 
years to each new member for whom the sum of $1.50 shall be 
sent to the Treasurer with the announcement of his election. 

V. 

PROCEDURE. 

The proceedings of the Council, in all cases not provided for 
in the Constitution or the by-laws, shall conform to the rules laid 
down in Cushing's Manual. 

VI. 

INDORSEMENT OF NEW CHAPTERS. 

All applications for future Chapters shall have the indorse- 
ment of at least five existing Chapters prior to presentation to the 
Senate. 

VII. 

AMENDMENTS. 

These by-laws, or any of them, may be suspended, altered, or 
amended at any meeting of the Council by a two-thirds vote of 
the members present and voting. 



THE PHI BETA KAPPA BADGE. 

By Oscar M. Voorhees, D.D., Secretary of the United 

Chapters. 

(Reprinted from The Phi Beta Kappa Key, Vol. I, No. 2.) 

Historical. 

The design of the Phi Beta Kappa medal was adopted on the 
day the society was organized, December 5, 1776, and this data 
was engraved on all their medals, one of which each member was 
obliged to secure. These medals were of silver, one inch square, 





THE ORIGINAL PHI BETA KAPPA MEDAL. 

"And for the better establishment and sanctitude of our unanimity, a square silver medal 
■vvas agreed upon and instituted, engraved on the one side with S. P., the initials of the Latin 
Societas Philosophiae, and on the other, agreeable to the former, with the Greek initials of 
*^\ i'-r>/ tr n / and an index imparting a philosophical design, extended 

^lAooroota mov KvpepVYiTT]^ * *i, ^u / ; < *i, 1 * u j- 4.- 

~ " r / / to the three stars, a part of the planetary orb distin- 

guished," The second paragraph of the original records. The letters following the initials 
of the Latin and Greek mottoes w^ere afterwards erased. 

and contained three stars. Nothing appears in the minutes as to 
the use made of them, and we are unable to determine whether 
they were worn regularly, or only at meetings and on state occa- 
sions. That their possession was deemed important is evident 
from the clause inserted in the early charters which provide that 
each member of the new branches " be provided with a medal of 
the same form and kind with that herewith transmitted you." 

At Harvard this requirement was interpreted liberally, for 
the silver medal there adopted was larger than the original, and 

(38) 



Phi JBeta Kappa. 



39 





MEDAL OF DANIEL WELD, JR., HARVARD, 1823. 
Notice the date, the size, one and one-eighth inch square, and the five stars. The five stars 
indicate either that the branch at Bowdoin had been voted, or that the medal had been secured 
after the organization there had been effected. The two additional stars seem to indicate the 
existence of five Alphas. This type of medal "wras in use at Harvard for many years. Prof. 
Samuel C. Derby, Harvard ^66, of Ohio State University, has a medal of this type, contain- 
ing, however, his own name and six stars. Harvard seems not to have adopted the key form 
until the early seventies. 

contained the date of their organization, September 5, 1781. 
The branch at Yale, however, adhered to the original size of 
medal with its earlier date. When in 1787 the branch at Dart- 
mouth was authorized, it was arranged that Harvard should pre- 
pare the Charter, and Yale give the laws, the secrets, and the 
badge. Hence Dartmouth has helped preserve the original date, 









m 




AN EARLY YALE MEDAL. 
Notice that the date of the fraternity's organization is preserved, as has been Yale's prac- 
tice from the first. This peculiar design seems not to have w^on favor, but it illustrates the 
tendency to experiment that later led to the attachment of a steel key stem, and so to the fa- 
miliar type of Phi Beta Kappa key. 



December 5, 1776, though it was not particular as to the size of 
the medal, for the oldest one there preserved is slightly smaller 

Thus the custom of having different-sized 



than the original. 



40 



Vanderbilt Chapter, 



medals has warrant in early practice, though we find no resolution 
definitely authorizing this variation. 

As the society at William and Mary was disbanded in January, 
1 78 1, the three New England branches took its place and deter- 
mined the course of the fraternity's development. Though ap- 
plications for charters were frequently received, no new branch 
was authorized until 181 7. During that time Harvard seems to 
have adhered to its original silver medal, and Yale to have ex- 
perimented with varying designs, as a result of which the square 
gold medal with the stem of a steel watch key attached came to 
be quite generally used. The three stars were retained and came 
to be regarded as indicating the three branches. When the 





DRAWING OF THE GOLD KEY OF JOHN W. FORD, UNION '24. 

This Is the type of key developed at Yale, and transmitted to Union at the organization 
there of the Alpha of New York. Union seems to have begun the practice of adding a star 
to indicate her admission to the galaxy of Alphas. Notice that the size of the original medal 
is retained. 



fourth branch was instituted at Union, in 1817, the medal was 
changed by adding a star. In other respects Union preserved 
the Yale badge or key, as we learn from one of Mr. J. W. Ford, 
Union '24, now in the possession of his grandson, J. W, Ford, of 
New Haven, Ct. 

The Alpha of Maine was the fifth branch to be authorized. 
Its charter is dated October 25, 1824, and its organization was 
effected the February 2 2d following. While its charter provided 
" That the members of the Alpha of Maine, each of them, be 
provided with a medal of the same form and kind with that here* 



Phi Beta Kappa. 



41 



with transmitted you without any alteration whatever," this 
clause was again interpreted liberally, for the medal adopted by 
the new branch, while of silver and closely resembling the orig- 
inal medal, was not quite square, it contained five stars, and had 
"Alpha of Maine " in script above, and "Feb'y 23d 1825," below 
the " S. P." While the plan of the Bowdoin branch of placing 
its own name and date on its medals did not prevail, its addition 
of a star did ; for the July following the Union branch " on mo- 
tion resolved that the badge of the society be altered by the addi- 
tion of another star." 





DRAWING OF THE SILVER MEDAL ADOPTED AT BOWDOIN. 

While the designation, Alpha of Maine, and the date, February 22, 1S25, were deliberately- 
adopted, and medals of this type were worn at the public exercises connected with the organ- 
ization of the Alpha, the members later yielded to the more general practice and adopted the 
gold key. Notice the five stars, the size, and the shape, i by 29-32 inch. This variation is Bow- 
doin's contribution to the evolutionary process. The new standard key. No. 1, is of this size. 

The other branches seem to have acquiesced in this action and 
mutually approved the plan of adding a star on the organization 
of each Alpha. So it came about that, though the Phi Beta Kappa 
key came to have some well-recognized features, there was a 
marked lack of uniformity. Various designs of borders were 
offered, and the inscriptions were changed and rearranged at the 
whim of the manufacturer or the wearer. This diversity seems 
out of harmony with the dignity of the Phi Beta Kappa. 

The attention of the chapters was called to this diversity in a 
publication issued in June, 1903, from which we quote a para- 
graph : 

It would seem advisable that sonie regulations should be adopted 
respecting the medal or key of Phi Beta Kappa. Many shapes and sizes 
are in use, almost as many in fact as there are jewelers engaged in their 
manufacture. Some have rounded corners, though the early ones were 
square. The number of stars varies from three, as at first, to ten, as 



42 Vanderbilt Chapter, 

required by the Alpha of New Jersey. If any definite regulations are to 
be adopted, they should grow out of the history of the medal and not be 
arbitrarily enacted. 

No action was taken until 1907, when a committee was appointed 
" to consider the question of the medal or key of the fraternity 
with a view to preparing a design that should, on adoption by a 
succeeding Council, be accepted as the official badge of the Fra- 
ternity." It was the understanding that the committee should re- 
port its findings to the chapters previous to the Council of 19 10. 
The committee consists of the Secretary, Dean Birge of the Wis- 
consin Chapter, and Professors Reed, Lane, and Lord of the Yale, 
Harvard, and Dartmouth Chapters respectively. 

By inserting notices in various publications and also by corre- 
spondence the committee endeavored to get together as much in- 
formation as is available respecting the evolution of the key. On 
the basis of the information so gathered, which is summarized 
above, a preliminary report was prepared and printed in May, 
1910. As the result of various criticisms, some modifications were 
proposed before the Council. But without taking definite action 
on any of the matters submitted, the Council referred the question 
back to the committee with instructions " to prepare a design and 
submit it to the chapters." In accordance with these instructions 
the following report is presented, with the accompanying design. 
It is expected that each chapter will be guided by the report and 
will take definite action to conform its practice thereto. Chapters 
are asked to present a copy of the report to the jewelers from 
whom its members are accustomed to procure their keys. The 
concluding paragraph of the preliminary report is also here quoted : 
" In adopting an official badge we make it clear that no manufac- 
turer is to be designated badge maker to the fraternity. But any 
chapter may enter into a contract for keys for its members." 

Report of the Committee. 

The Council of 1910 approved so much of the report of the 
committee appointed in 1907 as recommended that the design of 
the earlier keys be accepted as a basis of a final report. Without 
passing on the other matters submitted by the committee, the 
Council referred the matter back to them with instructions to pre- 
pare a design and submit it to the chapters. The purpose in view 
w^hen the committee was first appointed was the adoption of " a 



Phi Beta Kappa, 



43 



design of key that should be accepted as standard." Hence the 
design herewith submitted is by authority of the Council and is 
binding upon new chapters. It is also commended to the other 
chapters for favorable action. The committee adheres to the recom- 
mendation contained in the preliminary report that "any chapter 
that has already adopted a design of badge be allowed to retain it." 
But in the case of other chapters it is expected that new members 
will secure keys of the standard pattern. The attention of chap- 
ters is also called to the resolution of the Council of 1901 that re- 
quests manufacturers and jewelers to refuse to deliver "a Phi Beta 
Kappa key to any person except upon an order countersigned by 
an officer of a chapter." 

The design herewith submitted provides for a key, the measure- 
ments of which are in the proportion of 32 to 29. Four regular 
sizes are authorized, the superior measurements of No. I being 
that of the original medal — one inch. Numbers 2, 3, and 4 are 
each Ty^ inch shorter than the next larger size. The border de- 
sign is simple, and the inscriptions practically identical with those 
of the original medal. The three stars of the medal are retained, 
as they represent the three principles in the "philosophy" which 
the founders accepted as the " guide of life " : Fraternity, Morality, 
and Literature. 



THE STANDARD PHI BETA KEY. 




f" 



T W HiGGINSON 

Harvaro"4I 








H 





No. I. 



No. 2. 



On the reverse the inscriptions follow closely those of the 
medal, except that the script monogram " S. P." is engraved upon 
the middle portion of the face, leaving room above for the name 



44 



Vanderbilt Chapter, 



college, and class year of wearer, which may be engraved in Ro- 
man or script. This arrangement is found in use as early as 1827 
on a Yale key now in the possession of President Grosvenor. 

From keys still in existence the committee is led to believe that 
the transition from the original medal to the key was made by at- 
taching the stem of a steel watch key to a medal. This was no 
doubt done because of its utility. As a great variety of stem 
forms have been in use, the committee does not now deem it advis- 
able to insist upon any particular length or design of the stem. 
It leaves this and the ring to the artistic sense of the manufacturer 
and the taste of the purchaser. 

While this report provides for a key, the committee sees no 
reason why any member who prefers a medal should not wear 
one, providing it be made after the standard design, and be square, 
as was the original medal. 






T W HiCfilNSON 



i716 




No. 3. No. 4. 

The following features are ruled out as contrary to early usage : 
Boxed keys, wide borders, enameled letters, and rounded corners. 
And, further, the key must not be converted into a pin by soldering 
the pin to any part of either face, since this mutilates the key. 
The committee, however, recognizing the particular needs of the 
women, offers no objection to attaching a suitable pin to the ring, 
or to fastening a clasp, if desired, to the stem of the key. But 
strong preference is expressed for such an arrangement as will 
provide for wearing the key suspended, in accordance with well- 
nigh universal custom. 

With this in view the committee has under consideration the de- 
sign of a bar or chatelet so arranged as to be easily attached to 
a watch fob or the clothing, from which the key or medal may be 
suspended. It hopes to present to the chapters such a design 



Phi Beta Kappa. 45 

previous to the Council of 1913. If approved, the use of this bar 
may be authorized by the Council. If recommended, it will be 
with the definite understanding- that the bar is never to be used 
alone, but only as a device from which a Phi Beta Kappa key may 
be suspended. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE ALPHA OF TENNESSEE. 



[Required by the Charter.] 

I. This Society is one of the coordinate branches of the body 
known as the United Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa, and shall 
be called the "Alpha Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 
the State of Tennessee." 

II The object of the Phi Beta Kappa Society is the promotion 
of scholarship and friendship among students and graduates 
of American colleges. 

III. The members of the Chapter shall be elected primarily 
from the best scholars of the graduating classes of the college ; 
secondly, from those graduates of said college whose postgrad- 
uate work entitles them to such honor ; and lastly, from any per- 
son distinguished in letters, science, or education ; provided, how- 
ever, that the selection from each graduating class shall not ex- 
ceed one fourth of the number graduated. But the Chapter may 
make further limitations or restrictions. 

IV. In addition to scholarship, good moral character shall be a 
qualification of membership, and any member who is found to 
have lost this qualification may be expelled from the Society by a 
four-fifths vote of the members present at a regular annual 
meeting of the Society. 

V. This Chapter shall send a delegation to represent it at each 
National Council of the United Chapters, shall contribute its equal 
part to the financial support of the United Chapters, and shall 
conform to the Constitution of the United Chapters and all the 
lawful requirements of the National Council 

VI. This Chapter shall, by the enactment of suitable by-laws, 
provide for its election of officers, the initiation of members, the 
conduct of its meetings, and for such other matters as it may deem 
wise so to regulate. 

BY-LAWS. 
Article I. 

GRADUATE OFFICERS. 

Section i. The graduate officers of the Alpha Chapter of Ten- 
nessee shall be a President, First, Second, Third Vice Presidents, 

(46) 



Phi Beta Kappa, 47 

a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, and a Treas- 
urer. They shall hold office for one year or until their successors 
have been ajDpointed, 

Sec, 2, The President shall preside at the general meetings of 
the Chapter and on all public occasions. He can issue at his dis- 
cretion calls for meetings. In case of absence, his place shall be 
taken by a Vice President in order of precedence. 

Sec, J, The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the official 
correspondence. 

Sec, 4. The Recording Secretary shall keep all proceedings of 
the Society, examine the grades of students, notify such as are el- 
igible to membership, and revise each year the list of members. 

Sec. 5. The Treasurer shall have the oversight of all funds of 
the Society, and shall present a report of its financial status at 
least once a year. 

Article II. 

UNDERGRADUATE OFFICERS. 

Sec, I, The undergraduate officers shall consist of a President, 
a Secretary, and an Assistant Treasurer. The President shall be 
that member of the Senior Class who has attained the highest av- 
erage grade of scholarship during three years of the college course. 
The Secretary and Assistant Treasurer shall be elected by the 
student members. The term of office shall be one year or until 
the successors of these officers have been appointed. 

Sec, 2. In case of absence of any of the officers mentioned 
above, officers pro tern, shall be appointed by viva voce vote of 
those present. 

Sec, J, The President shall preside over the meetings of the 
student members. 

Sec, 4, The Secretary shall make record of the minutes of all 
student meetings and report the same to the Recording Secretary. 

Sec, 5. The Assistant Treasurer shall collect all assessments 
upon the student members and report the same to the Treasurer. 

Article III. 

MEMBERS. 

Sec, J, Students of the Academic Department of Vanderbilt 
University w^ho fulfill the following conditions are eligible to 



48 Vanderbilt Chapter, 

membership : They must have completed one year's work in Lat- 
in and Greek, or Latin and a modern language, in the course of 
study for a degree. Their average grade for three consecutive 
years must be at least eighty-six per cent. Senior electives in the 
Professional Departments will not be counted. Three-fourths of 
the number of hours of work required for a degree must have 
been done in Vanderbilt University, but credit gained by examina- 
tion in Vanderbilt University will be granted. All the nonelective 
work for a degree must have been completed. 

Sec, 2. In making up the average grade, credits will be valued 
at sixty per cent, unless the grade is certified by the proper author- 
ity. An average of credit grades from other institutions will not 
be valued above eighty-six per cent. When a subject is taken 
over, the highest grade may be counted. Electives not needed 
may be disregarded. 

Sec. j>. The total number elected each year from the graduating 
class shall not exceed twenty-five per cent of the number grad- 
uated. There may be a first election at the anniversary meeting 
during the senior year, but the number then elected shall not be 
greater than ten per cent of the enrollment of the senior class. 
There may be a second election at the end of the senior year. 

Sec. 4. No graduate student shall be eligible to membership 
whose course does not include Latin and Greek or Latin and a 
modern language. No graduate student shall be eligible who has 
taken his degree in an institution in which Phi Beta Kappa has a 
Chapter and who has failed of election by that Chapter. At least 
two years of exclusively graduate study must be spent in this uni- 
versity. Election to membership shall be valid only on a written 
nomination signed by a majority of the faculty members of Phi 
Beta Kappa. 

Sec. 5. No one shall be elected to honorary membership. 

Sec. 6, Members of other Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa may be 
received into the Vanderbilt Chapter on the vote of the members 
present at any regular meeting. 

Sec. 7. The initiation fee shall be five dollars. No member 
shall enjoy the privileges of the Society until he has been initiated. 

Article IV. 

QUORUM. 

Five members of the Society present at any regular meeting 
shall constitute a quorum. 



Phi Beta Kappa, 49 

Article V. 

CATALOGUE. 

There shall be published once in five years a catalogue of the 
Alpha of Tennessee containing a complete list of graduate officers 
and undergraduate presidents, and all members of the Society 
from the establishment of the Chapter to the date of issue of said 
catalogue, together with the history of the Chapter's organization 
and its constitution and by-laws. 

Article VI. 

AMENDMENTS. 

The Corresponding Secretary shall inform all members of the 
Chapter of any proposed amendment or suspension of these by- 
laws one month before the meeting at which it is to be presented. 
Nonresident members can send their votes in writing. A two- 
thirds vote is required for amendment ; a unanimous vote, for 
suspension. 

4 



A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PHI BETA KAPPA. 

By Professor Clark S. Northup, Cornell. 

(Reprinted by permission from The Phi Beta Kappa Key, Vol. I., No. 12 ; 

Vol. II., No. 2.) 



I. Books and Articles Relating to the Fraternity in 

General. 

Charles Francis Adams. Three Phi Beta Kappa addresses : 
A college fetich, 1883; "Shall Cromwell have a statue?" 1902; 
some modern college tendencies, 1906. Boston. Houghton, Mif- 
flin & Co. 1907. 8vo, pp. vi. 200. 

See also Harvard Orations and Addresses, 1883; Chicago Orations and 
Addresses, 1902; Columbia Orations and Addresses, 1906. 

[Avery Allyn.] Ritual of Freemasonry, to which is added 
a key to the Phi Beta Kappa, the Orange and Odd Fellows socie- 
ties, with notes. Boston. [183 1.] 1 2 mo. 

Another edition was published in New York in 1856, i2mo, pp. 269, and 
a few years ago the first edition was reprinted. The part relating to Phi 
Beta Kappa is quoted by J. D. Warner in his article in The D. K. E. ^uar- 
terlyy October, 1886, v. 15-30. 

William Raymond Baird. Manual of American college 
fraternities. New York. 1879. In the 6th ed., 1905, pp. 35-43. 
In the 7th ed., 191 2, pp. 548-57. 

Timothy Bigelow. See Harvard Orations and Addresses, 
1797. 

Edw^ard A. Birge. The Latin w^ords corresponding to the 
initials S. P. on the medal of Phi Beta Kappa. In Phi Beta 
Kappa Publications^ N. S. 8, pp. 5-14. 1909. 

— The meaning of " S. P." In The Nation^ Oct. 24, 1907, 
Ixxxv. 374. Same in The Evening Post^ Dec. 28, 1907. 

Henry Leland Chapman. Historical Sketch. In Catalogue 
of the Fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa^ Alpha of Maine ^ pp. 3-7. 
1888. 

Arthur Copeland. Men and Days in Phi Beta Kappa. 
Written and published for the New York Kappa Chapter of Phi 
Beta Kappa of Syracuse University. [Newark, N. Y. Cop. 
1907.] 8vo, pp. 143. Frontisp. and portrs. 

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Phi Beta Kappa, 51 

Lincoln Cromwell. Address of welcome [at the Tenth 
Triennial Council]. In The Key, March, 191 1, i. 4. 7-S. 

Edwin G. Dexter. High-grade men ; in college and out. In 
Ihe Popular Scie7ice Monthly^ March, 1903, Ixii. 429-35. 

Comment by A. L. Lowell in The Atlantic Monthly^ October, 
1903, xcii. 512-20. 

Edward Fitch. Phi Beta Kappa. In The Classical Weekly, 
March 6, 1909, ii. 143. 

Edwin Augustus Grosvenor. Philosophy the guide of life. 
Delivered before the Ninth Triennial Council, September 11-12, 
1907. In Phi Beta Kappa Piiblicaiions^ N. S. 6, pp. 29-36. 1907. 

Address [at the Tenth National Council]. In The Key, 
March, 191 1, i. 4. 9-10. 

President Grosvenor's message. In The Key, October, 191 3, 
ii. I. 5-13. 

Edward Everett Hale. A fossil from the Tertiary. In 
The Atlantic Monthly ^^w\y^ 1S79 xliv. 98-106. 

John Lesslie Hall. Mother land. A poem read at the 
Ninth Triennial Council, September 11-12, 1907. In Phi Beta 
Kappa Publications^ N. S. 6, pp. 26-28. 1907. 

George Birkbeck Hill. In Harvai-d College by an Oxonian^ 
New York, Macmillan, 1875, chapter 6, pp. 107-119. 

Albert Poole Jacobs. The Greek letter societies. Detroit, 
Mich, A.P.Jacobs. 1879. i6mo. 

George Dwight Kellogg. Historical sketch of Phi Beta 
Kappa. In Catalogue of members {i8^j-i8g8')^ Tale Chapter of 
Phi Beta Kappa^ ^-p. ^-12. 1898. 

The Key [poem]. In The Key, Jan., 1912, i. 6. 15. 
Translation by Ernest H. Riedel in same, March, 1912, i. 7. 40. 

John Adams Lowe. Eben Burt Parsons, Secretary and 
Treasurer, 1889-1901. In The Key, Jan., 1911, i. 2. 23-25. 

W. B. Mitchell. Henry Leland Chapman. In The Key, 
May, 1913, i. 12. 12-15. Portrait. 

The New Tork Literary Gazette and Phi Beta Kappa Reposi- 
tory was published under the above title from September 10, 1825, 
till March 4, 1826. It then dropped the second part of the title, 



52 Vanderbilt Chapter, 

on the ground that the help promised by members of the Frater- 
nity had not been given. Described by Oscar M. Voorhees in 
The Key, Oct., 191 1, i. 5. 36-8. 

Clark Sutherland Northup. The aims of Phi Beta 
Kappa. In The Cornell Era^ October, 1906, xxxix. 29-31. 

Eben Burt Parsons. Letter on appHcations for charters. 
WilHamstown. 1892. 8vo, pp. [2]. 

— Phi Beta Kappa : Officers, constitution, minutes, etc., of the 
United Chapters. Officers, customs, statistics, etc., of the forty 
chapters. WilHamstown. 1897. 8vo, pp. 28. 

— Phi Beta Kappa : Handbook and general catalogue of the 
United Chapters. North Adams, Mass. Walden & Crawley. 
1900. 8vo, pp. 256. 

As secretary Mr. Parsons edited the publications of the United 
Chapters issued during his incumbency. 

Ervin Louis Phillips. A history of the Phi Beta Kappa 
Fraternity. A thesis submitted for the degree of A.B. at Cornell 
University, 1891. Unpublished. A typewritten copy is deposited 
in the Cornell University Library. 

John T. Pickard. General history. In Catalogue of the 
Alpha of Missouri^ jgoi-igog^ pp. 5-24. Columbia, Mo. 1909. 

Francis Wayland Shepardson. Historical sketch. In 
Catalogue of the Chicago Chapter^ ^^p, ^-20. Chicago. 1909. 

Albert C. Stevens. The cyclopaedia of fraternities. Pater- 
son, N. J. Hamilton Printing and Publishing Co., 1899. 8vo. 
See pp. 328-47, 356-58. 

Edward L. Thorndike. The careers of scholarly men in 
America. In The Century^ May, 1903, Ixvi. 153-5. 
Comment in The Evening Post, May 5, 1903. 

Herbert Cushing Tolman. A brief history of the Phi 
Beta Kappa Society. In The Tale Moitthly Magazine^ March, 
1906, i. 88-96. 

— Preface. In Catalogue of the Vanderbilt Chapter of Phi 
Beta Kappa^ pp. 3-8. Nashville, Tenn. 1906. 

The United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. Constitu- 
tion [1882]. 32mo, pp. 4. 

— Constitution and minutes of the Third Triennial Council. 
1889. 8vo, pp. [16]. 

The minutes were also published separately, pp. [8]. 



Phi Beta Kappa, 53 

- — Phi Beta Kappa. Officers, constitution, etc. Compiled by 
Rev. E. B. Parsons. Williamstown. 1897. 8vo, pp. 28. 

— Phi Beta Kappa. Minutes of the Seventh Triennial Council. 
1 90 1. 8vo. 

— The National Council, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., September 
7, 1898. 8vo, pp. [4]. 

— Phi Beta Kappa. National Council, Saratoga Springs, Sep- 
tember 12, 1 90 1. 8vo, pp. [7], 

Phi Beta Kappa. Bulletin of information. 1902. 8vo, pp. 

[4]- 

— Phi Beta Kappa. Bulletin of information. June, 1903. 

Svo, pp. [7]. 

— Phi Beta Kappa. Information respecting institutions that 
have applied for charters. June i, 1904. 8vo, pp. [12]. 

— Phi Beta Kappa. Roll of chapters. 1904. Svo, pp. [4]. 

— Phi Beta Kappa. Publications. New Series. Svo. 

1. Proceedings of the Eighth Triennial Council held at Sara- 
toga Springs, N. Y., September 7, 1904. Pp. [8]. 

2. Organization of new chapters. June, 1905. Pp. [8]. 

3. Chapter activities. May 15, 1906. Pp. [23]. 

4. The meeting of the Senate, etc. May, 1907. Pp. 14. 

5. The Ninth Triennial Council, etc. 1907. Pp. 15. 

6. Public exercises and proceedings of the Ninth Triennial 
Council, Williamsburg, Va., September 11 and 12, 1907. 1907. 
Pp. 47. 

7. The Phi Beta Kappa past and present. By Rev. Oscar M. 
Voorhees. 1908. Pp. 8. 

8. The Latin motto of the Society, organization of new chap- 
ters, etc. 1909. Pp. 23. 

9. The meeting of the Senate, etc. 19 10. Pp. 15. 

10. Brief paragraphs in Phi Beta Kappa history, together with 
a list of Senators, chapters, and chapter officers. Illustrated. 
1910. Pp. [24], 

A second edition, with some changes, was also printed. 

1 1. The Tenth National Council, New York City, September 
13 and 14, 1910. Officers, Senators, and roll of delegates. 1910. 
Pp.8. 

— The Phi Beta Kappa Key. Somerville, N. J. Novem- 
ber, 1 9 10, to date. Published quarterly. 

■ — Preliminary report of the Committee on Fraternity Policy to 



54 Vanderbilt Chapter, 

the Eleventh National Council of the United Chapters of Phi 
Beta Kappa. 1913' 8vo, pp. 8. 

Reprinted in The Key, October, 1913, ii. i. 33-38. 

• — Various customs, usages, and forms of the Phi Beta Kappa 
Society. [1890?] 8vo, pp. [8]. 

Oscar McMurtrie Voorhees. Brief paragraphs in Phi 
Beta Kappa history. In Phi Beta Kappa Publications^ N. S. 10. 
1910. 

• — Chancellor James Kent. In The Key, March, 191 1, i. 3. 1-5. 

— The early development of the Phi Beta Kappa in New Eng- 
land. In The Key, May, 191 1, i. 4. 10-43. 

— Historical sketch. In Catalogue of the Alpha Chapter of 
New Jersey of the Phi Beta Kappa Society^ pp. 2-14. 1891. 

— John James McCook. In The Key, Oct., 191 1, i. 5. 34-6. 

In part reprinted from same, i. i. 9. 

— Members in foreign lands. In The Key, May i, 1913, i. 12. 

7-9- 

— Our Phi Beta Kappa fathers and their fraternity [abstract]. 

Lm. 8vo., pp. [3]. 

— Our Phi Beta Kappa fathers in fraternity and public life. 
Delivered at the Ninth Triennial Council, Sept. 11-12, 1907. In 
Phi Beta Kappa. Publicatioizs^ N. S. 6, pp. 11-26. 1907. 

— The Phi Beta Kappa badge. In The Key, Jan., 191 1, i. 2. 
16-23. 

. — Phi Beta Kappa men at Oxford. In The Key, May, 191 1, 
i. 4. 44-6. 

— The Phi Beta Kappa past and present. Its primacy among 
American college fraternities. In The Delta Upsilon ^uarterly^ 
May, 1908. 

Also in PJii Beta Kappa Publications^ N. S. 7. Pp. 8. 1908. 

- — The Phi Beta Kappa Repository. In The Key, October, 

1911, i. 5. 36.38. 

— Presidential candidates. In The Key, Jan., 1913, i. 10. 38-9, 
— Proceedings of the Eleventh National Council. In The Key, 
October, 1913, ii. i. 14-40. 

— Respecting a Phi Beta Kappa census. In The Key, May, 

1912, i. 8. 26-8. 

— Respecting applications for charters. In The Key, Jan., 

1913, i. 10. 39-42. 



Phi Beta Kapfa. 55 

— Respecting institutions applying for charters. In The Key, 
May, 1913, i. 12. 17-29. 

— Stewart Lyndon Woodford. In The Key, May, 191 1, i. 4. 
46-8. Portrait. 

— Talcott Williams, LL.D. In The Key, Oct., 1912, i. 9. 22-3. 
Portrait. 

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard, '41. In The 
Key, May, 1911,1. 4. 43-4. Portrait (frontispiece). 

As secretarj'^, Mr. Voorhees has edited all the publications of the United 
Chapters since he assumed the duties of the office. 

John DeWitt Warner. The first Greek-letter fraternity. 
In TJie Delta Kappa Epsilon ^uarte^dy^ October, 1886, v. 15-30. 

A facsimile of part of the minutes of the William and Mary Chapter 
forms the frontispiece of the number. 

Adolph Werner. Phi Beta Kappa [report of the First 
Triennial Council, September 5, 1883]. In The College MerciLry 
[College of the City of New York], October 10, 1883, v. 6-9. 

As secretary, Mr. Werner edited the publications of the United Chapters 
during his incumbency. 

Justin Winsor. Records of the convention of October 18, 

1 88 1. In Harvard College Library Bulletin^ Cambridge, Jan. i, 

1882, iii. 21. 300-1. 

Stewart Lyndon Woodford. Revival of Phi Beta Kappa. 
In The Delta Kappa Epsilon ^imrterly, J a.uua.ry, 1884, ^^' 95'^*^2. 



OFFICERS OF THE UNITED CHAPTERS FROM 
THEIR FORMATION TO THE PRESENT. 



Presidents. 

1883-1886 President Charles W. Eliot, LL.D. 

1886-1889 Hon. Matthew Hale, LL.D. 

1889-1895 Col. Thomas W. Higginson, LL.D. 

1895-1898 Bishop Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D. 

1898-1907 Hon. John A. De Remer, LL.D. 

1907- Prof. Edwin A. Grosvenor, LL.D. 

V^ice Presidents, 

1883-1886 Hon. Matthew Hale, LL.D. 

1886-1889 Col. Thomas W. Higginson, LL.D. 

1889-1892 Prof. Francis P. Nash, Ph.D., LL.D. 

1892-1895 Prof. Adolph Werner, Ph.D. 

1895-1898 Hon. John A. De Remer, LL.D. 

1898-1904 Prof. James C. Van Benschoten, LL.D. 

1904-1907 Rev. E. B. Parsons, D.D. 

1907-* Col. John J. McCook, LL.D. 

1913- Prof. Edward A. Birge, LL.D. 

Secretaries and Treasurers. 

1883-1889 Prof. Adolph Werner, Ph.D. 
1889-1901 Rev. E. B. Parsons, D.D. 
1901-1913 Rev. Oscar M. Voorhees, D.D. 

Secretary, 
1913— Rev. Oscar M. Voorhees, D.D. 

7 reasurer. 
191 3- David Layton, M.S. 

Senators. 

1889-1895 President Charles K. Adams, LL.D. 

1884-1892 President James B. Angell, LL.D. 

1895-1901 Prof. Simon E. Baldwin, LL.D. 

1904- Prof. Edward A. Birge, LL.D. 

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Phi Beta Kappa, 57 

892-* Bishop Phillips Brooks, D.D. 

907-1913 President Nicholas Murray Butler, LL.D. 

913- President Francis Brown, LL.D. 

895-* Prof. Henry L. Chapman, D.D. 

883-1893, 1898 Hon. Joseph H. Choate, LL.D. 

901- Prof. Edwin A. Grosvenor, LL.D. 

883-1889 Hon. George W. Curtis, L.H.D., LL.D. 

883-1907 Hon. John A. De Remer, LL.D. 

883-* Prof. Theodore W. Dwight, LL.D. 

883-1886 President Charles W. Eliot, LL.D. 

883-1886 Judge Waldridge A. Field, LL.D. 

913- President John H. Finley, LL.D. 

883-1895 Rev. Octavius B. Frothingham, D.D. 

892-1898 President Merrill E. Gates, L.H.D., LL.D. 

896-1903 President Daniel C. Gilman, LL.D. 

904-1907 President Arthur T. Hadley. 

883-* Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D. 

883-1895 Hon. Matthew Hale, LL.D. 

898—1904 Hon. Tpieodore E. Hancock, LL.D. 

892- Prof. Samuel Hart, D.D. 

913- President John G. Hibben, LL.D. 

8S3-* Col. Thomas W. Higginson, LL.D. 

883-1889 Judge Oliver W. Holmes, LL.D. 

895-1901 Bishop J. F. Hurst, D.D. 

895-* Col. William Lamb, LL.D. 

892-1904 President Seth Low, LL.D. 

910- President A. Lawrence Lowell, LL.D. 

886-* Hon. James Russell Lowell, LL.D. 

898- Editor Hamilton W. Mabie, L.H.D., LL.D. 

907-1913 President George E. MacLean, LL.D. 

892-1904 Prof. Francis A. March, L.H.D., LL.D. 

883-* Prof. Benjamin N. Martin, D.D., L.H.D. 

907-1913 Prof. Augustus T. Murray, Ph.D. 

904-* Hon. John J. McCook, LL.D. 

883-1901 Prof. Francis P. Nash, Ph.D., LL.D. 

910- Prof. Clark S. Northup, Ph.D. 

889-* Rev. Eben B. Parsons, D.D. 

910- Prof. Ellen F. Pendleton, LL.D. 

910-1913 Prof. James M. Page, LL.D. 

910- Prof. Bliss Perry, L.H.D. 



^8 Vanderbilt Chapter, 

1886-1898 Bishop Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D. 

1907- Prof. Edward B. Reed, Ph.D. 

1901-1907 President Ira Remsen, LL.D. 

1892-1895 Hon. Elihu Root, LL.D. 

1895-* Editor Horace E. Scudder, L.H.D. 

1913- Editor Albert Shaw, LL.D. 

1913- Prof. Francis W. Shepardson, LL.D. 

1883-1892 Rev. Richard S. Storrs, D.D., LL.D. \ 

1895- President Charles F. Thwing, D.D. 

1904— President James M. Taylor, LL.D. 

1898—* Prof. James C. Van Benschoten, LL.D. 

1913- President George E. Vincent, LL.D. 

1901— Rev. Oscar M. Voorhees, D.D. 

1883-* President Francis A. Walker, Ph.D., LL.D. 

1889-1895 President Harrison E. Webster, M.D., LL.D. 

1883— 1907 Prof. Adolph Werner, Ph.D. 

1901-1907 Prof. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, LL.D. 

1886-* Prof. William D. Whitney, L.H.D., LL.D. 

1904- Editor Talcott Williams, LL.D. 

1883-* Librarian Justin Winsor, LL.D. 

1907- President Mary E. Woolley, LL.D. 

1883-1892 Hon. Steward L. Woodford. 

1883-1886 Prof. John H. Wright, LL.D. 



OFFICERS OF THE VANDERBILT CHAPTER FROM 
ITS ESTABLISHMENT TO THE PRESENT. 



President. 
1901- Herbert Cushing TolmaNjPh.D., S.T.D., LL.D, 

Vice Presidents. 

1901-1913 William James Vaughn, LL.D. 

1901-1904 Robert Kennon Hargrove, D.D. 

1901- James Hampton Kirkland, Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L. 

1904- Le^vis Baxter, M.A. 

1913- St. George Leakin Sioussat, Ph.D. 

Correspondiitg Secretaries. 

1901-1906 Hiram Albert Vance, Ph.D. 

1906-1907 Campbell Bonner, Ph.D. 

1907- George Redford Mayfield, jSI.A. 

Recording Secretary. 
1901- John Thomas McGill, Ph.D. 

Treasurers. 

1901-1903 Robert Leathan Lund, M.S. 

1903— 1904 Grinnell Jones, B.S. 

1904- Charles Edgar Little, Ph.D. 

Undergraduate Presidents. 

1901-1902 Gilbert Campbell Scoggin. 

1902-1903 Albert Charles Snead. 

1903-1904 Sadie Sheffield Luff (Mrs. William Jarrell). 

1 904-1 905 David Melville Smith, Jr. 

1905-1906 Jesse Maxwell Corum. 

1906-1907 Rose Ambrose (Mrs. R. B. Doud). 

1 907-1908 Lawrence W. Murphy. 

1908-1909 John C. Ransom. 

1909-1910 Addie C. Bartlett. 

1910-1911 Fitzgerald Hall. 

1911-1912 Mary Florence Teague. 

1912-1913 Alex. Green FiTE, Jr. 

1913-1914 Charles Kendall Leslie, Jr. 

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THE VANDERBILT CHAPTER. 



Classes of j\f embers. 

In accordance with the recommendation adopted by the Na- 
tional Council in 191 3, the classes of members are designated as 
follows : 

(i) Charter Members — Named in the Charter as responsible 
for the organization of the chapter. 

(2) Foundation Members — Chosen by the Charter Members to 
assist in the organization of the chapter, according to the terms 
of the Charter. These are specified on page 21, 

(3) Associate or Affiliated Members — Members of other chap- 
ters, indicated by the designation of the chapter after their names 
and the year of their election ; e. g. A. B. C, ^ B K, '99 (Johns 
Hopkins), 1903 = A. B. C, member of Johns Hopkins Chapter 
elected in 1899, and affiliated member of Vanderbilt Chapter 1903. 

(4) Alumni Members — Indicated by the class numeral after 
their names and the year of their election which forms the head- 
ing of the division in which they stand ; e. g. 1904 — A. B. C, 
'87 = A. B. C, a graduate of the class of 1887 and elected to 
membership in 1904. 

(5) Graduate Members — Members elected at the time of receiv- 
ing their higher degree on the ground of excellence in graduate 
work; e. g. A. B. C, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt, 1910). No graduate 
student is eligible who has taken his undergraduate degree in an 
institution in which Phi Beta Kappa has a chapter and who has 
failed of election by that chapter. 

(6) Undergraduate Members — Members, indicated by the class 
numeral, elected during their undergraduate course at the Decem- 
ber or June meeting, e. g. 1902 — A. B. C, '03 = A. B. C, of 
the class of 1903, elected in December, 1902 (first election); 1903 
— A. B. C, '03 = A. B. C. of the class of 1903, elected in June, 
1903 (second election). 

(7) Honorary Members — No one shall be elected to honorary 
membership in the Alpha of Tennessee (By-law III., Sec. 5). 

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MEMBERS. 



Charter Members, 

Herbert Gushing Tolman,$BK, '88 (Yale), Nashville^ Tenn, 
Ph.D. (Yale, 1890) ; D.D. (University of Nashville, Peabody 
College, 1901) ; S.T.D. (Hobart, 1913) ; LL.D. (University of 
Nashville) ; Student at Universities of Berlin and Munich ; 
Fellow and Assistant Indo-European Languages, Yale (1888- 
91); Instructor in Latin (1891-93), Assistant Professor of 
Sanskrit (1892-93), University of Wisconsin; Professor of 
Sanskrit, University of North Carolina (1893-94) ; Professor 
of Greek, Vanderbilt University (1894- ) ; elected President 
of Hobart College (19 13), but declined. Hon. Canon, All- 
Saints Cathedral since 1904; Mem. Royal Asiatic Society 
(1893), Internat. Congress Archaeologists, Athens, Greece 
(1905) ; Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America (191 2) ; 
in charge during summers of American Church, Munich, 
Christ Church, Lucerne, Holy Trinity, New York City, and 
Special Preacher at Trinity Church, New York City. Presi- 
dent, Alpha of Tennessee (i 901- ). Author : "Caesar's Gal- 
lic War," " Gospel of Matthew in Greek," " Persian Inscrip- 
tions," "Greek and Roman Mythology," "Herodotus and 
Empires of East," "Urbs Beata," " Mycen^an Troy," "The 
Art of Translating," "Via Crucis," "Ancient Persian Lexicon 
and Texts," "Ancient Persian Language and Cuneiform Sup- 
plement." Editor: "Vanderbilt Oriental Series" (7 vols.). 
Associate Editor: "World's Progress" (10 vols.). 

*HiRAM Albert Vance, $ B K, ''^Z (Hamilton), Nashville^ Tenn, 
Ph.D. (Jena, 1893) ; Instructor in History and Assistant Li- 
brarian, Hamilton College (1888-89); Student in Germany 
(1891-93); Professor of English Language, University of 
Nashville, Peabody College (1889-1906); Acting Professor 
of English Philology, Vanderbilt University (1904-5); Cor- 
responding Secretary, Alpha of Tennessee (1901— 6). Au- 
thor: "Der Sermo in Festis Sanctse Mariae Virginis mit 
Ruecksicht auf das Altenglische." Editor : " Stevenson's 
Treasure Island." Died 1906. 

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62 Vanderbilt Chapter, 

Associate Foundatioit Mejtibers. 

*RoBERT Kennon Hargrove, ^ B K, '47 (University of Ala- 
bama), Nashville^ Tenn, 
D.D. (Emory College) ; Professor of Mathematics, Univer- 
sity of Alabama (1853-57); Bishop of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, South, since 1S82 ; President of the Board of 
Trustees, Vanderbilt University (1889-1905); Vice Presi- 
dent of the Alpha of Tennessee (1901-05). Died, 1905. 

Eugene Russell Hendrix, ^ B K, '67 (Wesleyan University, 
Connecticut), Kajisas City^ Mo,. 

D.D. (Emory College, 1878, Wesleyan, 1903) ; LL.D. (Uni- 
versity of Missouri and University of North Carolina, 1888, 
Washington and Lee University, 1892) ; President of Central 
College, 1878-86 ; Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church,. 
South, since 1886; Member of the Board of Trustees, Van- 
derbilt University ; President of the Board of Trustees, Van- 
derbilt University (1909-11); Fraternal Delegate to British 
Wesleyan Conference, 1900; Quillian Lecturer, Emory Col- 
lege, 191 3; Cole Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, 1903; 
President Federal Council of Churches of Christ in Amer- 
ica (1908- ). Author: "Religion of the Incarnation,"^ 
"Skilled Labor for the Master," "Christ's Table Talk,'" 
" The Personality of the Holy Spirit." 

^William James Vaughn, $ B K, '57 (University of Alabama), 

Nashville^ Tenn,. 
LL.D. (University of Mississippi, 1883, University of Ala- 
bama, 1912); Tutor in Mathematics, University of Alabama 
(1857-60) ; Tutor in Latin and Greek, University of Alabama 
(1860-63) ; Professor of Mathematics, University of Alabama 
(1863-65, 1878-82); Professor of Mathematics, Vanderbilt 
University (1882-1913); declined offer of Presidency of Uni- 
versity of Alabama ; Vice President Alpha of Tennessee 
(1901-13). Died, 1912. 

Leonidas Chalmers Glenn, <E> B K, '99 (Johns Hopkins), 

Nashville^ Tenn, 
Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, '99) ; Fellow in Geology at Johns 
Hopkins (1899); Associate Professor of Biology and Geol- 
ogy, South Carolina College (1899- 1900) > Adjunct Professor 
of Geology, Vanderbilt University (1900-03); Professor of 



Phi Beta Kappa, 65 

Geology Vanderbilt University (1903- ); connected with 
the United States Geological Surveys and member of Ten- 
nessee Geological Surveys ; member of numerous scientific 
societies. 

Timothy C lor an, c& B K, '91 (Western Reserve), Eugene^ Or eg. 
Ph.D. (Strasburg, 1899); Instructor in Latin and Greek, 
Geneva Normal School (1891-93); Professor of French, 
German, and Greek, Shurtleff College ; Professor of Modern 
Languages, State University of Idaho (1899-1900); Adjunct 
Professor of Romance Languages, Vanderbilt University 
(1900-04) ; Assistant Professor of Romance Languages 
(1906-07) ; Professor of Romance Languages, University of 
Oregon (1908- ); Editor: " Chateaubriand's Atala." Au- 
thor : " Augier's Anglo-Norman French Translations of the 
Dialogues of Gregory the Great." 

Elliott W. Kirk, '99 ^ B K (Wabash), Crawfordsville^ Ind. 
Assistant in Biology, Vanderbilt University (1901-04). 

Foundation Members from the Former Scholarship Society^ 
A ® ^^ at Vanderbilt University, 

James Hampton Kirkland, Nashville^ Tenn, 

Ph.D. (Leipzig, 1885) ; LL.D. (University of North Caro- 
lina, 1894, University of Missouri, Wesleyan University, Uni- 
versity of Pittsburg) ; D.C.L. (University of the South, 1901) ; 
Tutor in Greek, Wofford College (1879-81); Assistant Pro- 
fessor of Greek and German^ Wofford College (1882-83) ; Pro- 
fessor of Latin, Vanderbilt University (1886-93) '•> Chancellor 
of Vanderbilt University (1893- ) ; declined Presidencies of 
four leading American universities ; Chairman of Section of 
Religious Influence, Congress of Arts and Sciences, St. 
Louis, 1904; President of the Religious Educational Associ- 
ation, 1912; President, and for fourteen years Secretary, of 
the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the 
Southern States ; Member of Committee on Literature and 
Education of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in 
America, of Council of Directors of the American Associ- 
ation for International Conciliation, of Executive Committee 
of Conference for Education in the South, of National Con- 
ference Committee on Standards of Colleges and Schools, of 



64 Vanderbilt Chapter. 

Board of Trustees of National Child Labor Committee ; 
Vice President, Alpha of Tennessee (1901- ). Author: 
*' Satires and Epistles of Horace." Consulting Editor: "Li- 
brary of Southern Literature." 

Charles Read Bakersvill, '96, Chicago^ III. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1898); Ph.D. (Chicago); Professor of 
English, Territorial Normal School ; Instructor in English, 
University of Chicago. 

George Booth Baskervill, '02, Macon^ Miss. 

John Y. Bayliss, '95, St. Louis^ Mo. 

William Francis Bradshaw, '99, Paducah^ Ky. 

Campbell Bonner, '96, Ann Arboi-^ Mich. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1887); Ph.D. (Harvard, 1900); Fellov^ at 
Harvard (1899-1900); student in Germany (1900-01); Pro- 
fessor of Greek, University of Nashville (1901-07); Junior 
Professor of Greek, University of Michigan ; Professor of 
Greek, University of Michigan ; Corresponding Secretary, 
Alpha of Tennessee (1906-07). Author: "Vocabulary to 
Xenophon's Anabasis." 

Theodore Hampton Brewer, '96, Norman^ Okla. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1907) ; Professor of English, University 
of Oklahoma. 

Morris William Bush, '99, Birmingham^ Ala. 

Ben Childers, '95, Pulaski^ Tenn. 

Henry Files Crenshaw, '96, Montgomery^ Ala. 

Jean Courtney, '96, Franklin^ Tenn. 

Henry Jackson Daily, '99, Orvingsville^ Ky. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1900); M.D. (Southwestern Homeopathic 
Medical School, 1903). 

Clement Evans Dunbar, '96, Augusta^ Ga. 

Mabelle Flippin, '96, Memphis^ Tenn. 

Herbert G anna way, '01, Memphis^ Tenn. 

LL.B. (Vanderbilt, 1905). 

John Wesley Hanner, '96, Washington^ D. C. 

M.D. (Vanderbilt, 1901). 



Phi Beta Kappa. 65 

Charles Edward Hawkins, '97, Gallatin^ Tenn, 

Principal of Hawkins School. 

William James Howard, '99, Mt. Pleasant^ Tenn, 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1900); LL.B. (Vanderbilt, 1901); Pro- 
fessor in North Alabama Conference College (1903-06). 

William Hamilton Johnson, '96, Jackson^ Miss. 

M.E. (Vanderbilt, 1897). 

Anna Gertrude Jones, '95 (Mrs. Clarence Brown Smith), 

Port Sheridan^ III. 

Minnie E. Keiser, '96 (Mrs. Nathan Powell), Chapel HiU.^ Tex. 

Morgan C. Ketchum, '95, Memphis^ Ten?i. 

LL.B. (Cumberland University, 1896). 

Marion Palmer Kirkland, '98 (Mrs. Morgan Ketchum) 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1S99). Memphis., Tcjin. 

Henry J. Livingston, '95, Memphis^ Tenn. 

LL.B. (Vanderbilt, 1897). 

William Bethel Long, '99, Mt. Pleasa7it^ Term. 

LL.B. (Vanderbilt, 1904). 

Lee J. Loventhal, '96, JVashville., Tenn. 

Robert Leathan Lund, '95, St. Potcis^ Mo. 

C.E. (Vanderbilt, 1896) ; M.S. (Vanderbilt, 1897) ; Instruc- 
tor in Drawing and Surveying, Vanderbilt University (1897- 
1902) ; Adjunct Professor of Drawing and Surveying, Van- 
derbilt University (1902-03) ; Treasurer, Alpha of Tennessee 
(1901-03). 

William Kennon Matthews, '95, Kobe., Japan. 

M.A. (Chicago, 1902). 

Thomas Motlow, '01, Pynchbzcrg-^ 7 en7i. 

George Jefferson Nunn, '98, Amarillo^ Tex. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1899). 

William Morrison Patterson, '99, Morristown^ ^*J' 

Edwin Moore Rankin, '96, Easton., Pa. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1897); Ph.D. (Harvard, 1902); Tutor in 
5 



66 Vanderbilt Chattel-. 

Latin, Princeton University (1903-10); Professor of Latin, 
Lafayette College. 

Cummins Ratcliffe, '96, Little Rock^ Ark, 

LL.B. (Howard, 1900). 

Elmer Riggs Smith, '96, Tallahassee^ Fla, 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1897). 

William David Strayhorn, '97, Mt. Pleasant^ Tenn, 

John Bell Tansil, '00, Tullahoma^ Tenn, 

LL.B. (Vanderbilt, 1905); M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1906). 

Oscar Teague, '98, New York City, N, T, 

M.S. (Vanderbilt, 1899); M.D. (University of Berlin, 1902). 

Shepherd Halsey Werlein, '97, Jackso7i, Miss, 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1898); B.D. (University of the South). 

Charles P. Williams, '95, St. Lotiis, Mo, 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1897). 

John Milford Williams, '98, Searcy, Ark, 

President of Galloway College. 

John Gilmer Winston, '01, Memphis, Tenn, 

Alum7zus ^Foundation Member. 

John Thomas McGill, '79, Nashville, Tenn, 

Ph.D. (Vanderbilt, t88i); Fellow in Chemistry, Vanderbilt 
University (1879-81); Assistant Instructor in Chemistry, 
Vanderbilt University (1881-86); Adjunct Professor of 
Chemistry, Vanderbilt University (1886- 1900) ; Professor of 
Organic and Physical Chemistry, and Dean of Department 
of Pharmacy, Vanderbilt University (1900- ); member of 
numerous scientific societies ; President of American Confer- 
ence of Pharmaceutical Faculties (1907-08); Recording Sec- 
retary, Alpha of Tennessee (1901- ). Author : " Laboratory 
Experiments in General Chemistry," "Introduction to Qual- 
itative Chemical Analysis." 

Affiliated Members. 

Collins Denny, $ B K, '02 (Princeton), 1902, Richmond, Va, 
M.A. (Princeton, 1879) ; B.L. (University of Virginia, 1877) ; 



Phi Beta Kappa. 67 

D.D. (Randolph-Macon, Emory and Henry, Washington and 
Lee); LL.D. (Emory and Henry, Emory); Chaplain, Uni- 
versity of Virginia (1889-91) ; Professor of Mental and Moral 
Philosophy, Vanderbilt University (1891-1910); Bishop of 
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, since 1910; Secretary 
of College of Bishops of Methodist Episcopal Church, South 
(1910- ); Chairman of Book Committee (1898-1910); Fra- 
ternal Delegate to Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore 
(1908); President of Commission of Appeals, Methodist 
Episcopal Church, South, (1910- ). 

Calvin Smith Brown, '88, <^ B K, '01 (Rutgers), 1902, 

University^ Miss. 
Sc.D. (Vanderbilt, 1892); Ph.D. (University of Colorado, 
1899); Student in Universities of Paris and Leipzig; In- 
structor in English, Vanderbilt University (1897-99); Pro- 
fessor of Romance Languages, University of Mississippi 
(1905-09); Professor of German Language and Literature, 
University of Mississippi (1908- ). Author: " The Lignite 
of Mississippi." Editor : " The Later English Drama," 
" Tennyson's Enoch Arden." 

Lewis T. Baxter, <E> B K, '74 (Hobart), 1904, Nashville^ Tenn, 
M.A. (Hobart, 1874, and University of Tennessee, 1875); 
Vice President, Alpha of Tennessee (1904- ). 

Sevirt N. Hagan, ^ B K, '00 (Johns Hopkins), 1907, 

Nashville^ Tenn. 
Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins) ; Assistant Professor of English 
Philology, Vanderbilt University (1907- ). 

Richard Jone,s, ^ B K, '08 (Grinnell), 1908, Cambridge^ Mass. 
Ph.D. (Heidelberg, 1893); Professor of English Language 
and Literature, Vanderbilt University (1899-1910) ; Professor 
of English, Tufts College (1910- ). Author : " The Growth 
of the Idylls of the King," " The Arthurian Legends." Ed- 
itor : "The Merchant of Venice," "The Tragedy of Mac- 
beth," "History of English Literature." 

John J. Luck, ^ B K (Virginia), 1910, Nashville^ Tenn. 

Ph.B. (Virginia) ; Instructor in Mathematics, Vanderbilt 
University (1901-13); Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 
Vanderbilt University (1913- ). 



68 Vanderbilt Chapter. 

Bruce Ryburn Payne, <> B K, '04 (William and Mary), 191 1, 

Nashville^ Tenn. 
M.A. (Columbia, 1903) ; Ph.D. (Columbia, 1904) ; Professor 
of Philosophy and Education, William and Mary (1904-05); 
Professor of Secondary Education (1905-06) ; Professor of 
Psychology, University of Virginia (1906-11); President of 
George Peabody College for Teachers (191 1- ); Member 
of National Council of Religious Education Association ; Di- 
rector of Summer School, University of Virginia (1906-11). 
Author : " Elementary Curricula of Germany, France, Eng- 
land, and America." 

St. George Leakin Sioussat, ^ B K, '99 (Johns Hopkins), 
191 1, Nashville^ Tenn, 

Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, 1899); Instructor in History, Smith 
College (1899- 1 904); Professor of Plistory and Economics 
(1904-11); Dean of College of Arts and Sciences (1909-11), 
University of the South ; Professor of History, Vanderbilt 
University (191 [- ); taught during summer at University 
of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins University ; Lecturer, 
Forest School, Biltmore, N. C. (1905-11); Vice President, 
Alpha of Tennessee (1913- ). Author: "Economics and 
Politics in Maryland," " Statistics on State Aid to Higher 
Education," "Highway Legislation in Maryland," " The Eng- 
lish Statutes in Maryland." 

Henry Beach Carre, <E> B K, '12 (Tulane), 1912, 

Nashville^ Tenn. 
B.D. (Vanderbilt, 1898); Ph.D. (Chicago, 191 3); student in 
Germany (i 898-1 901); President of Centenary College 
(1902-03) ; Adjunct Professor of Biblical Theology and Exe- 
gesis (1903-13); Professor of Biblical Theology and Exe- 
gesis, Vanderbilt University (1913- ). Author: "Paul's 
Conception of the Redemption of the World." 

Thomas Carter, ^ B K, '12 (Tulane), 19 12, Nashville^ Tenn. 
M.A. (Tulane) ; B.D. (Vanderbilt, 1894) ; D.D. (Centenary) ; 
Professor of Greek, Tulane University (1898- 1902); Pro- 
fessor of New Testament Greek, Vanderbilt University 
(1902- ). 

Carter Alexander, ^ B K, '06 (University of Missouri), 1913, 

Nashville^ Tenn. 
M.A. (University of Missouri, 1908); Ph.D. (Columbia, 



Phi JRefa Kafpa, 69 

1 9 10); Assistant Professor of Educational Administration, 
University of Missouri (1910-13); Professor of School Ad- 
ministration, George Peabody College for Teachers (19 13- )• 
Author : *' Some Recent Tendencies of Teachers' Voluntary 
Associations in the United States." 

Elva Sly, 4> B K, '03 (University of Nebraska), 1913, 

Nashville^ Tenn. 
Instructor in German, University of Nebraska ; Dean of 
Women, University of Arkansas ; General Secretary of Y, 
W. C. A., Nashville. 

Undergraduate^ Graduate^ and Aluftini Members, 

1 90 1. 

Amelia McTyeire Baskervill, '02 (Mrs. W. E. Martin), 

Sir7ningha7n^ Ala, 

Daisy May Hemphill, '02 (Mrs. C. O. Tuttle), Richmond^ Va, 

Martha Murfree Maney, '02 (Mrs. Thomas Maston), 

Winston- Salem ^ JV, C. 

Gilbert Campbell Scoggin, '02, Columbia^ Mo, 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1903); Fellow at Harvard (1904-06); 
Ph.D. (Harvard, 1906) ; Associate Professor of Sanskrit and 
Comparative Philology, University of Missouri. Author : 
" Weissenborn's Homeric Life," " Mycenasan Troy." 

1902. 

Edward Emerson Barnard, '87, ^erkes Observatory^ Wis, 
Sc.D. (Vanderbilt, 1893) ; LL.D. (Queen's University, 1909) ; 
Astronomer, Vanderbilt University Observatory (1883-87) ; 
Astronomer, Lick Observatory (1887-95); Professor of As- 
tronomy and Astronomer of Yerkes Observatory, University 
of Chicago (1895- )> discoverer of the fifth satellite of Ju- 
piter (1892) and sixteen comets; received gold medals (La- 
lande Medal, Arago Medal, Janssen Medal) from French 
Academy of Sciences and from Royal Astronomical Society 
of Great Britain, and the Janssen prize, French Astronomical 
Society ; member of the Eclipse Expedition to Sumatra 
(1901) ; Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society ; member 
of French Astronomical Society. 



7o Vanderbilt Chapter, 

Edward Barfield Chappeli., '79, Nashville^ Tenn. 

D.D. (Central College, Mo., 1891); Pastor of Cook Avenue 
Church, St. Louis, West End Church and McKendree 
Church, Nashville ; member of the Board of Trustees, Van- 
derbilt University ; Sunday School Editor and Chairman of 
General Sunday School Board of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, South, since 1906. Author : " Studies in the Life of 
John Wesley." 

Robert Waller Deering, '84, Cleveland^ Ohio. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1885); Ph.D. (Leipzig, 1889); Adjunct 
Professor of Germanic Languages, Vanderbilt University 
(1889-92) ; Professor of Germanic Languages, Western Re- 
serve University (1892- ) ; Dean of Graduate School, West- 
ern Reserve University (1893- ). Editor: "Schiller's Wil- 
helm Tell," « Goethe's Egmont." 

Chiles Clifton Ferrell, '85, Birmingham^ Ala. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1886); Ph.D. (Leipzig); Professor of 
Modern Languages, (1893-1905); Professor of Germanic 
Languages, University of Mississippi (1905-08). Editor : 
" Sappho- Trauerspiel." Author : " Teutonic Antiquities in 
the Anglo-Saxon Genesis." 

Richard P. Rapier Hines, '03, Washing-ton^ D. C. 

William Henry Hulme, '90, Cleveland^ Ohio. 

Ph.D. (Freiburg, 1894) ; Fellow in Greek, Vanderbilt Uni- 
versity ( 1889-90) ; Professor of English, Western Reserve 

(1899. ). 

Grinnell Jones, '03, Cambridge^ Mass. 

M.S. (Vanderbilt, 1905) ; Ph.D. (Harvard) ; Fellow and In- 
structor in Chemistry at Harvard (1905- ); Treasurer, 
Alpha of Tennessee (1903-04). 

Charles Edgar Little, Nashville^ Te7i7i. 

Ph.D. (Vanderbilt, 1899) ; member of American Oriental 
Society; Instructor in Latin, University of Nashville (1891- 
99) ; Professor of Latin, University of Nashville, Peabody 
College (1899-1911); Chairman of Faculty, University of 
Nashville (1910-11); Professor of Latin, George Peabody 
College for Teachers (19 11- ); Treasurer, Alpha of Ten- 



Phi Beta Kappa. "Ji 

nessee (1904- ). Author: "Grammatical Index to the 
Chandogya Upanishad,^'' 

Samuel Marvin Miller, '03, Jeffersonville^ Ind, 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1904). 

Edwin Mims, '92, Nashville^ Tenn. 

Ph.D. (Cornell, 1900); Fellow in English, Vanderbilt Uni- 
versity (1893-94) ; Professor of English, Trinity College,N. C. 
(1894- 1909) ; Professor of English, University of North Car- 
olina (1909-12) ; Professor of English Language and Litera- 
ture, Vanderbilt University ( 1912- ) ; President of Southern 
Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools (1903); 
Member of Hymn Book Commission of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 
(1902); taught during summer, University of Virginia. 
Editor : " Sidney Lanier," " Southern Prose and Poetry," 
" Southern Fiction," " Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey," 
" Stevenson's Inland Voyage," " Selections from Henry van 
Dyke," " Carlyle's Essay on Burns." Associate Editor : 
"South Atlantic Quarterly" (1905-09). 

Stella Rich, '03, Nashville^ Tenn. 

Albert Charles Snead, '03, Fruita^ Cal. 

Henry Nelson Snyder, '87, Spartanburg.^ S. C. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1890) ; Litt.D. (South Carolina University, 
1902); LL.D. (1905); student at Goettingen ; Professor of 
English, Wofford College (1890- 1902) ; President of Wofford 
College (1902- ); declined Presidency of University of 
South Carolina (1909). 

Charles Lewis Thornburg, '81, South Bethlehem^ Pa. 

Ph.D. (Vanderbilt, 1884); Adjunct Professor of Practical 
Astronomy and Civil Engineering, Vanderbilt University 
(1892-96); Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Le- 
high University (1896- ). 

*JoHN James Tigert, '77, Nashville., Tenn. 

D.D. (Emory and Henry) ; LL.D. (University of Missouri) ; 
Professor of Moral Philosophy, Vanderbilt University (1881- 
90); Editor of the "Methodist Quarterly Review" (1894- 
1905) ; Secretary of the Board of Trust, Vanderbilt Univer- 



72 Vanderbilt Chapter. 

sity ( 1903-06) ; Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Churchy 
South (1905-06). Author: "Handbook of Logic," "The 
Preacher Himself," " Theology and Philosophy," " Constitu- 
tional History of American Methodism," "A Voice from the 
South," " The Making of Methodism," «' Theism," " The 
Doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America'* 
(2 vols.). Editor: " The Journal of Thomas Coke," " Sum- 
mers's Systematic Theology " (2 vols.) ; " Banks's Manual of 
Christian Doctrine," " McTyeire's Passing through the 
Gates." Died, 1906. 

1903. 

Charles Newell Burch, ^SS^ Louisville^ Ky^ 

LL.B. (Vanderbilt, 1889) ; Professor of Criminal Law, Van- 
derbilt University (1900-03); General Counsel of the Louis- 
ville & Nashville Railroad (1903- ). 

Benjamin F. Cornelius, '04, New York City., N. T, 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1904). 

*JosHUA Hicks Harrison, '81, San Antonio., Tex. 

Principal of Elkton Training School (1899-1904); Principal 
of the Asbury School (1904-08). Died, 1908. 

Alfred Hume, '87, University., Miss. 

D.Sc. (Vanderbilt, 1890) ; Professor of Mathematics, Univer- 
sity of Mississippi (1890- ); Vice Chancellor since 1905^ 
Acting Chancellor (1906-07), University of Mississippi. 

Sadie Sheffield Luff, '04 (Mrs. William Jarrell), 

ThoTtiasville., Ga, 

Edward Fall Malone, '03, Cincinnati., Ohio. 

M.D. (Johns Hopkins) ; Assistant Professor of Astronomy,, 
University of Cincinnati. 

James Clark McReynolds, '82, Washington., D, C. 

B.L. (University of Virginia, 1884) ; Professor of Commer- 
cial Law, Vanderbilt University (1901-03); Assistant United 
States Attorney- General (1903-07); Attorney- General of the 
United States (19 13- )• 

Horace Maxey Roberson, '03, I^ort Terry., N. T. 

M.D. (Vanderbilt University, 1906); surgeon, U. S. A. 



Phi Beta Kappa. 73 

John J. Tigert, Jr., '04, Lexington^ Ky. 

Rhodes Scholar (Oxford, England, 1904-07); Professor of 
Philosophy, Central College (1907-09) ; President of Ken- 
tucky Wesleyan College (1909- 1 1) ; Professor of Philosophy, 
State University of Kentucky (191 1- ); delegate to Ecu- 
menical Methodist Conference, Toronto, 191 1 ; President of 
Kentucky Association of Colleges. 

Claude Waller, '84, Nashville^ Tenn. 

B.E. (Vanderbilt, iZ'^6)\ M.S. (Vanderbilt, 1888); LL.B. 
(Vanderbilt, 1890) ; Professor and Lecturer on Real Prop- 
erty, Vanderbilt University (1899- )• 

William A. Webb, '91, Lynchburg^ Va, 

Student in Germany (1903-04) ; Professor of English, Central 
College, Missouri ( 1899- 1907) ; President of Central College 
(1907-13); President of Randolph-Macon Woman's College 
(19 1 3- ) ; member of Southern Educational Association, 
Religious Educational Association. 

William Henry Witt, '87, Nashville^ Tenn. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1888); M.D. (Vanderbilt, 1894); Pro- 
fessor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Vanderbilt Uni- 
versity (1899- ). 

Casimir Douglass Zdanowicz, '03, Madison., Wis. 

Ph.D. (Harvard, 1906) ; Assistant Professor of Romance 
Languages, University of Wisconsin. 

1904. 

William C. Branham, '87, Spring Hill., Tenn. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, (1889); Assistant in English, Vanderbilt 
University ; Co-Principal of Branham & Hughes School. 

Elizabeth Chapman Denny, '04 (Mrs. Eugene Ellis Vann), 

Juiz de Fora.^ Brazil. 
M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1905). 

Woodford Wilson Dinning, '04, Helena^ Ark. 

Caro Roberta Du Bose, '04, Tuskegee^ Ala, 

Student Secretary, Y. W. C. A., for Alabama, Tennessee, 
Kentucky, and Mississippi. 

Henry Wade Du Bose, '04, Spring Hill., Tenn, 



74 Vanderbilt Chaptar. 

John Roberts Fisher, '04, Lynchburg^ Va. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1905) ; Assistant in French, Vanderbilt 
University (1905-08); Professor in Randolph-Macon. 

George Ritchie Gordon, '04, Camden^ Ark, 

Frances Hardy Hammond, '04, New Toi^k^ N. T, 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1905). 

Ivan Lee Holt, '04, Cafe Girardeau^ Mo. 

Ph.D. (Chicago). 

A. V. Lane, '80, Dallas^ Tex. 

C.E. (Vanderbilt, 1881); Ph.D. (Vanderbilt, 1882). 

Adelaide Winter Lyon, '05, Nashville^ Tenn. 

Penelope McDuffie, '04, Nashville^ Tenn. 

John Nichols, '04, Nashville^ Tenn. 

Maud Mary Sanders, '04 (Mrs. John Paul Tyler), 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1905). Baltimore^ Md. 

Irving Simons (formerly Kolsky), '04, Nashville^ Tenn, 

M.D. (College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1908). 

David Melville Smith, Jr., '05, Atlanta^ Ga. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt) ; Professor of Mathematics, Southern 
University ; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Georgia 
Institute of Technology. 

A. H. Wilson, '92, Haverford^ Pa. 

M.S. (Vanderbilt, 1893) : Student in Germany ; Instructor in 
Mathematics, Princeton University ; Instructor in Mathemat- 
ics, University of Illinois ; Professor of Mathematics, Haver- 
ford College. 

Millard Fillmore Woodrow, '05, New Tork City^ N* T, 
Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University ; Winner of Vinerian 
Law Prize (1910). 

1905. 

Louise Porter Bang, '05 (Mrs. John R. Fisher), 

Lynchburg^ Va, 

William H. Bates, '94, Lafayette^ Ind. 

M.A. (University of Chicago, 1902) ; Ph.D. (Chicago, 1900) ; 
Principal of Smyrna Fitting School (1894-97) ; Instructor in 



Phi Beta Kappa. 75 

Mathematics, Purdue University (1904-10); Professor of 
Mathematics, Purdue University. 

Anthony Faulkner Blanks, '05, Delaivare^ Ohio. 

Fletcher Sims Brockman, '91, Shanghai^ China. 

International Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation (1893- ). 

Jesse Maxw^ell Corum, '06, Orange.^ N,J. 

Horace E. Happel, '06, St, Louis., Mo. 

M.D. (Jefferson Medical College, 191 1). 

Laura Hayes, '05, Normal., III. 

Instructor in English, Normal University. 

Percy D. Maddin, '81, Nashville., Tenn. 

LL.B. (Vanderbilt, 1882) ; Professor of the Law of Torts 
and Carriers, Vanderbilt University (1901- ). 

*Lucy Dell Ross, '06, Nashville., Tenn. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1906). 
Died, 1908. 

Anne Hilman Scales, '05 (Mrs. A. Benedict), Nashville., Tenn. 

*JoHN R. Waters, '05, Birmingham., Ala. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1908); Prof essor of History, Philosophy, 
and Theology, Birmingham College. 
Died, 19 10. 

1906. 

*RoLAND Litchfield Amberg, '06, Hickman., Ky. 

Died, 1 910. 

Rose Ambrose, '07 (Mrs. Ralph Brigham Doud), Goodrich., Tenn. 

Sam Larkins Fow^lkes, '07, Neivbern., Tenn. 

Eliot Jones, '06, Philadelphia., Pa. 

Ph.D. (Harvard) ; Instructor in Economics, University of 
Pennsylvania. 

Battle Hargrove Klyce, '06, Waycross., Ga. 

Charles Allen Lloyd, '06, Portland., Tenn. 

George Radford Mayfield, Nashville., Tenn. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1904) ; Instructor in German, Vanderbilt 



^6 V^anderbilt Chapter, 

University (1906- ); Student in Germany (1911). Cor- 
responding Secretary, Alpha of Tennessee (1907- ). 

William Edmond Norvell, Jr., 'o6» Nashville^ Tenn. 

LL.B. (Vanderbilt, 1909). 

Walter Buckner Nance, '93, Soochow, China, 

B.D. (Vanderbilt, 1904); Professor in Soochow University. 

William Allen Pusey, '85, Chicago^ III. 

A.M. (Vanderbilt, 1886); M.D. (Univ. Med. College, New 
York University, 1888); Professor of Dermatology, Coll. 
Phys. and Surg., University of Illinois (1894- ). President 
of American Dermatol. Association (1910). Author: "The 
Roentgen Rays in Therapeutics and Diagnosis," " The Prin- 
ciples and Practice of Dermatology.'* 

1907. 

Clifton Seaton Boswell, '08, San Antonio^ Tex. 

Edmund Irving Crockett, Pueblo., Colo. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, '88). 

Arthur Fitzgerald Jones, '07, Nashville., Tenn. 

Elliott Hamilton Jones, '91, Kansas City^ Mo. 

Member of Board of Trust, Vanderbilt University (1906- ). 

Thomas H. Malone, Nashville., Tenn. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 93); LL.B. (Vanderbilt, '96). 

John Owsley Manier, '07, Nashville., Tenn. 

M.D. (University of Pennsylvania, 1911). 

Nannie Hardin Moore, '08 (Mrs. C. H. Bateman), 

Spring Hilly Tenn, 

Lawrence W. Murphy, '08, Atlanta., Ga. 

Instructor in Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology. 

Lexie Ulner Ragsdale, '07, Columbia^ Tenn. 

Francis Pelzer Smart, '07, Charlottesville^ Va. 

Armand Max Souby, '07, Murfreesboro., Tenn. 

Professor of History, Middle Tennessee State Normal. 

Charles Clay Trabue, '92, Nashville., Tenn. 

LL.B. (Vanderbilt, '94). 



Phi Beta Kafpa. 77 

1908. 

Alice Porter Clark, 'o8(Mrs.Z.P.Beachboard),-5^r/^^/<?)/,C«/. 

George Waite Clark, '08, Wartrace^ Tenn. 

Ruby Robert Hanlin, *o8, Cullman, Ala, 

John Hill, '08, Oshkosh^ Wis. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1910) ; Ph.D. (Wisconsin) ; Professor in 
the State Normal, Oshkosh, Wis. 

James Martin Souby, '08, 

Elizabeth Young, '08, 



Kansas City, Mo. 
Memphis, Tenn. 



1909. 



Cedar Hill, Tenn. 
Ithaca, JV. T. 



Addie C. Bartlett, '10, 

Charles William Bennett, '09, 

M.A. (Vanderbilt); Ph.D. (Cornell). 

Noel Thomas Dowling, '09, JVew York City, JV, T. 

M.A. (Columbia, 1910) ; LL.B. (Columbia) ; Assistant Com- 
missioner Legislative Drafting Research Department, Colum- 
bia University. 

Carl Clinton Gardner, '10, Colu?nbia, Tenn. 

Florence Gates, '09 (Mrs. Herman L. Rich), Nashville, Ten^t. 
M.A. (Vanderbilt). 



Rhoda Kaufman, '09, 

Elias Raas Kaufman, '09, 
LL.B. (Columbia). 

Thomas H. Meeks, '10, 

Charles Priest, '10, 

John C. Ramsom, 

Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University. 

J. W. Sewell, '09, 

Author : " English Grammar." 

Paul Washington Terry, '09, 



John Williams Bull, 'ii, 
LL.B. (Vanderbilt, 191 3.) 



1910. 



Colum,bus, Ga. 
Lake Charles, Ga. 

Nashville, Tenn. 

Dayton^ Nev. 

Lakeville, Conn. 

Nashville, Tenn. 

Sherman^ Tex. 

Nashville, Tenn. 



78 



Vanderbilt Chapter, 



J. H. Dinning, '93, 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1894). 

Bernard Fensterwald, 'it. 



Columbia^ Tenn, 



Nashville^ Tenn, 



Frank Flavius Frantz, Fayette^ Mo, 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1901) ; Ph.D. (Vanderbilt, 1910) ; Pro- 
fessor of Romance Languages, Central College. 



George Clapp Greer, '83, 



3eauinont^ Tex, 
Nashville^ Tenn. 



Fitzgerald Hall, 'ii, 

LL.B. (Vanderbilt, 1913). 

Edwin Lee Johnson, Nashville^ Tenn,. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1905); Ph.D. (Vanderbilt, 1910); In- 
structor in Greek and Latin, Vanderbilt University (191 1- ). 
Author : " Index Verborum to the Old Persian Cuneiform 
Inscriptions." 



Rebecca Locke Young, '10, 

191 1. 
Anna Louise Clark, '11, 

Rainsford Edward Galloway, 
M.A. (Vanderbilt, '11). 

Charles Walter Gray, 'ii, 

Robert Selph Henry, 'ii, 

Herbert Joseph Jones, '12, 

Robert McDonald Lester, 'ii, 

Louis Markle, 'ii, 

Whitefoord Smythe Mays, 'ii, 

Mattie May Morgan, 
M.A. (Vanderbilt, '11). 

Ada Rains, 'ii, 

Jesse Carlisle Rapp, 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, '11). 

Morrice R. Rich, 'ii, 

Eleanor Richardson, 'ii, 



Memphis^ Tenn, 

IVinchester^ Tenn, 
Nashville^ Tenn, 

Del Rio Tex, 
Nashville^ Tenn, 
Nashville^ Tenn, 
Covington^ Te7in, 
Nashville^ Te7tn, 
Atlanta^ Ga. 
Knoxville^ Tenn, 

Afe?nphis^ Tenn, 
McGehee^ Ark, 

Nashville^ Tenn, 
y/emphis^ Tenn, 



Phi Beta Kappa » 
Marv Florence Teague, '12, 

WiLLARD CONWELL TeAGUE, 'i2, 

Louise Young, '12, 

1912. 



79 

Searcy^ Ark, 

Pulaski^ Tenn. 
Memphis^ Tenn, 

Nashville^ Tenn, 



Richard A. Bark, '92, 

M.D. (Vanderbilt, 1894^ ; Professor of Surgery and Clinical 
Surgery, Vanderbilt University. 



Reginald Victor Bennett, '12, 
Benjamin Reno Downer, '91, 
Ralph Fensterwald, '12, 



Narrows^ Ky, 

Kansas City^ Mo. 

Nashville^ Tenn, 



Alex. Green Fite, Jr., '13, Nashville^ Ten7i, 

Assistant in Greek, Vanderbilt University (19 13- ), 



Corinne Johnson Gladding, '13, 

Ernest Victor Jones, 

Ph.D. (Vanderbilt, 191 2). 

Naomi Louisa Kayhoe, '12, 

Carson Tyrold Kirkpatrick, 
M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1904). 

Robert Pritchett McLarty, 'ii, 

Lamar Gertrude Ryals, '12, 

Thomas Littell Smith, '12, 

Rose Eleanor Tate, '12, 

Cornelius Hardy Buford, '13, 

Albert Roberts Halley, '13, 
M.D. (Vanderbilt). 

Charles Kendall Leslie, Jr., '14, 

Joseph Henry Litterer, '14, 

William F. Moncrieff, Jr., '13, 



Memphis^ Tenn, 
Jacksonville^ Ala, 

Nashville,, Tenn, 
Nashville,^ Tenn. 

Atlanta^ Ga. 

Memphis,, Tenn, 

Hop kins ville,, Ky. 

Shelby ville^ Tenn. 

JSfashville,, Tenn, 
Savannah,, Ga. 

Coweta,, Okla, 
Nashville,, Tenn. 
Nashville . Te?in. 



8o Vanderbilt Chapter, 

Earl Bauer Stiltz, '14, Gallatin^ Teyin. 

Alvin H. M. Stonecipher, ^13, Kento?i^ Tenn, 

Superintendent of Watkins Institute School (19 13- ). 

Stephen Austin Van Ness, '13, Nashville^ Tenn. 

LoNNiE Otto Wilkerson, '14 Stajiion^ Te?in. 



MEMORIALS. 



Hiram Albert Vance. 

Hiram Albert Vance was born July 23, i860, at West Frank- 
fort, New York. He entered Hamilton College, Clinton, New 
York, in 1884, winning Phi Beta Kappa and graduating with the 
A.B. degree in 1888. From 1889 to his death, July 7, 1906, he 
was Professor of the English Language in the University of 
Nashville, Peabody College for Teachers. He was a charter 
member (Dr. Tolman being the other) of the Tennessee Alpha of 
Phi Beta Kappa, established in 1901 at Vanderbilt University, and 
was the corresponding secretary of the chapter from that date on. 

Dr. Vance was devoted to the ideals of Phi Beta Kappa and 
illustrated in himself the aims for which this society stands. He 
was a high-minded scholar, a lover of truth and right, a disciple of 
letters and the life of the spirit in man, willing to choose even 
poverty with these, ready to refuse everything without them. 

We put these facts on record in our minutes as proof of the 
loss we have sustained in the death of our colleague. His friend- 
ship and the example of his life we value and shall value with a 
sincere desire to emulate his virtues. 

Signed, Charles E. Little, 

J. T. McGiLL. 



John J. Tigert. 

John J. Tigert, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
South, died at Tulsa, Ind. T., Nov. 31, 1906. His career was one 
of continuous development in scholarship, character, and useful- 
ness. His life was devoted to the Church and the cause of ed- 
ucation. 

His work included five years in the active ministry, ten years as 
student, instructor, and professor in Vanderbilt University, twelve 
years as editor of books and the Methodist Quarterly Review^ and 
six months as a bishop. From 1902 he was a member of the 
Board of Trust of Vanderbilt University, and from 1904 Secre- 
tary of the Board. 

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82 Vanderbilt Chapter. 

His contributions in books, pamphlets, and other writings to the 
literature of the Church and to education are extensive and valua- 
ble. He had accomplished much, yet the highest attainments of 
his career seemed still before him. He was just entering upon a 
new and broader field of usefulness, in the prime of his life, w^ith 
unimpaired health and vigor, unabated zeal and energy, with cul- 
tivated intellectual powers and with noble aspirations. 

The Vanderbilt Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa, in order that 
it may put on record its appreciation of the life of such a man, 
one of its honored members, the sorrow that it feels at his loss, 
and its sympathy with those most dear to him, orders that this 
memorial be spread upon the minutes and a copy be sent to the 
members of his family. 

Signed, J. T. McGill, 

Charles E. Little. 



William J. Vaughn. 

The Phi Beta Kappa Society in the death of Professor William 
J. Vaughn, LL.D., has lost one of its most distinguished mem- 
bers. He had been First Vice President of the Alpha of Tennes- 
see since its establishment at Vanderbilt University in 1901. The 
luster of his name and the inspiration of his life take high place 
among the noble men who have served their generation and whom 
the great national brotherhood of scholars delights to honor. 

To the local chapter, to us who knew him and loved him 
through close personal association, he embodied the scholarly 
achievement, the broadness of vision, the keen sense of honor, the 
unwavering devotion to truth, the Christian gentlemanliness, 
which have ever been the high ideal of the society. 

We thank the Giver of all mercies for his noble personalty, 
which entered into our lives, enriching them and blessing them 
forever. H. C. Tolman, President, 



INDEX. 

[The date refers to the year of admission into the Vanderbilt Chapter. Members of the 
former scholarship society, A 9 $ are marked $• associate foundation members are marked 
/; affiliated members are marked a.] 



Alexander, C, '13, a. 
Amberg, R. L., '06. 
Ambrose, R., '06. 

Bang, L., '05. 
Barnard, E. E., '02. 
Barr, R. A., '12. 
Bartlett, A. C, '09. 
Baskervill, A. McT., '01. 
Baskervill, C. R., $. 
Baskervill, G. B., '01. 
Bates, W. H., '05. 
Baxter, L. T., '04, a. 
Bayless, J. Y., $. 
Bennett, C. W., '09. 
Bennett, R. V., '12. 
Blankes, A. F., '05. 
Bonner, C, $. 
Bos well, C. S., '07. 
BradshaAv, W. F., *. 
Branham, W. C, '04. 
Brewer, T. H., $. 
Brockman, F. S., '05. 
Brown, C. S., '02, a. 
Buford, C. H., '13. 
Bull,J. W., '10. 
Burch, C. N., '03. 
Bush, M. W., $. 

Carre, H. B., '12, a. 
Carter, T., '12, a. 
Chappell, E. B., '02. 
Childers, B., $. 
Clark, A. L., '11. 
Clark, A. P., '08. 
Clark, G. W., '08. 
Cloran, T.,/. 
Cornelius, B. F., '03. 
Corum, J. M., '05. 
Courtney, J., 4>. 



Crenshaw, H. F., *. 
Crockett, E. I., '07. 

Daily, H.J.,$. 
Deering, R. W., '02. 
Denny, C, '02, a. 
Denny, E. C, '04. 
Dinning, J. H., '10. 
Dinning, W. \V., '04. 
Dowling, N. T., '09. 
Downer, B. R., '12. 
Du Bose, C. R , '04. 
Du Bose, H. W., '04. 
Dunbar, C. E., <I>. 

Fensterwald, B., '10. 
Fensterwald, R., '12. 
Ferrell, C. C, '02. 
Fisher, J. R., '04. 
Fite, A. G., '12. 
Flippin, M., $. 
Fowlkes, S. L., '06. 
Frantz, F. F., '10. 

Galloway, R. E., '11. 
Gannaway, H., 4>. 
Gardner, C. C, '09. 
Gates, F., '09. 
Gladding, C. J., '12. 
Glenn, L. C.,/'. 
Gordon, G. R., '04. 
Gray, C. W., '11. 
Greer, G. C, '10. 

Hagen, S. N., '07, a. 
Hall, F., '10. 
Halley, A. R., 13. 
Hanlin, R. R., '08. 
Hammond, F, H., '04. 
Hanner, J. W., #. 
Happel, H. E., '05. 



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84 



Index. 



Hargrove, R. K.,y. 
Harrison, J. H., '03. 
Hawkins, C. E., *. 
Hayes, L., '05. 
Hemphill, D., '01. 
Hendrix, E. R.,/. 
Henry, R. S., *ii. 
Hill, J., '08. 
Hines, R. P. R., '02. 
Holt, J. L., '04. 
Howard, W. J., $. 
Hulme, W. H., '02. 
Hume, A., '03. 

Johnson, E. L., '10. 
Johnson, W. H,, 4>. 
Jones, A. F., '07, 
Jones, E., '06. 
Jones, E. H., '07. 
Jones, E. V., '12. 
Jones, G., <&. 
Jones, G., '02. 
Jones, H. J., '11. 
Jones, R., '08, a. 

Kaufman, E. R., '09. 
Kaufman, R., '09. 
Kay hoe, N. L., '12. 
Keiser, M. E., $. 
Ketchum, M. C, *. 
Kirk, E. W.,/. 
Kirkland,J. H., 4>. 
Kirkland, M. P., *. 
Kirkpatrick, C. T., '12. 
Klyce, Bo H., '06. 

Lane, A. V., '04. 
Leslie, C. K., '13. 
Lester, R. M., '11. 
Litterer, J. H., '13. 
Little, C. E., '02. 
Livingston, H. J., $. 
Lloyd, C. A., '06. 
Long, W. B., *. 
Loventhal, L. J., *. 
Luck, J., *io, a. 
Luff, S. S., *03. 
Lund, R. L., $. 
Lyon, A. W., '04. 



Maddin, P. D., '05. 
Malone, E. F., '03. 
Malone, T. H., '07. 
Maney, M. M., '01. 
Manier, J. O., '07. 
Markle, L., '11. 
Matthews, W. K., *. 
Mayfield, G. R., '06. 
Mays, W. S., 11. 
McDuffie, P., '04. 
McGill, J. T.,/. 
McLarty, R. P., '11. 
McReynolds, J. C, '03. 
Meeks, T. H., '09. 
Miller, S. M., '02. 
Mims, E., '02. 
Moncrieff, W. F., '13. 
Moore, N. H., '07. 
Morgan, M. M., '11. 
Motlow, T., $. 
Murphy, L. W., '07. 

Nance, W. B., '06. 
Nichols, J., '04. 
Norvell, W. E., '06. 
Nunn, G. J., 4>. 

Patterson, W. M., *. 
Payne, B. R., '11, a. 
Priest, C, '09. 
Pusey, W. A., '06. 

Ragsdale, L. U., '07. 
Rains, A., 'ii. 
Rankin, E. M., *. 
Ransom, J. C, '09. 
Rapp, J. C, II. 
Rich, M. R., 'II. 
Rich, S., '02. 
Richardson, E., '11. 
Roberson, H. M., '03. 
Ross, L. D., '05. 
Ryals, L. G., '12. 

Sanders, M. M., '04. 
Scales, A. H., '05. 
Scoggin, G. C, '01. 
Sewell,J» W., '09. 
Simons, J., '04. 



Index, 



8s 



Sioussat, St. G., 'n, a. 
Sljr, E., '13, a. 
Smart, F. P., '07. 
Smith, D. M., '04. 
Smith, E. R., *. 
Smith, T. L., »i2. 
Snead, A. C, *o2. 
Snjder, H. N., '02. 
Soubjr, A. M., '07. 
Souby, J. M., '08. 
Stilz, S. B., '13. 
Stonecipher, A. H. M., '13. 
Strayhorn, W. D., *. 

Tansil, J. B., $. 
Tate, R.E., '12. 
Teague, M. F., '11. 
Teague, O., 4». 
Teague, W. C, '11. 
Terry, P, W., '09. 
Thornburg, C. L., »03, 
Tigert,J.J.,'o2. 
Tigert,J.J.,Jr.,'o3. 



Tolman, H. C, Charter Member. 
Trabue, C. C, '07. 

Vance, H. A., Charter Member. 
Van Ness, S. A., '13. 
Vaughn, W.J.,/. 

Waller, C, '03. 
Waters, J. R., '05. 
Webb, W. A., '03. 
Werlein, S. H., *. 
Wilkerson, L. O., '14. 
Williams, C. P., *. 
Williams, J. M., 4>. 
Wilson, A. H., '04. 
Winston, J. G., 4». 
Witt, W. H., '03. 
Woodrow, M. F., '04. 

Young, E., '08. 
Young, L., '11, 
Young, R. L., *io. 

Zdanowicz, C. D., '03. 



